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Called Meeting Charlotte, N. C, January 18, 1926 1 1
Adjourned Meeting .... Charlotte, N. C, February 1, 1926 | g
Adjourned Meeting .... Charlotte, N. C, March 1, 1926 | g
Adjourned Meeting Charlotte, N. C, May 10, 1926 1 1
Next Adjourned Meeting . Charlotte, N. C, 2 P M., July 5, 1926 1 1
Next Stated Meeting . . . Banks, 10 A. M., October 26, 1926 1 1
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113th Stated Session, Sugaw Creek Church
April 1345, 1926
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DIRECTORY
Rev. Q. N. Huneycutt, Th.D., Moderator Walkersville, N. C
Rev. J. G. Garth, Stated Clerk Charlotte, N. C
Rev. J. W. Stork, Permanent Clerk Charlotte, N. C.
W. E, Price, Treasurer Home Missions Charlotte, N. C.
Trustees of Presbytery^ W. H. Belk, J. M. Gates, J. L. Choate.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Presbytery's Home Missions — J. M. Walker, H. E. Gurney, W. R.
Coppedge, W. B. S. Chandler, C. H. Little, F. S. Neal, W. H.
Belk, T. J. Smith, C. P. Brown, W. E. Price, J. F. Ligon, Dr.
R. H. Lafferty.
PERMANENT COMMITTEES
1. Foreign Missions — J. F. Ligon, J. W. Grier, W. B. Mcllwaine,
W. L. Wallis, J. Arthur Henderson, M. B. Spier, R. N. Nesbit.
2. Assembly's Home Missions— W. B. S. Chandler, C. H. Little,
A. S. Anderson, Jno. B. Ross.
3. Christian Education and Ministerial Relief — J. W. Grier, M, E.
Sentelle, L. W. Brown, J. W. McClung.
4. Religious Education — General Chairman, G. F. Bell.
(i) Children's Division: W. M. Wilcox, W. E. Price, M. E.
Peabody.
(2) Young People's Division : W. B. S. Chandler, J. G. Garth, W.
W. Moore, F. H. Bierman.
(3) Leadership Training: W. S. Hamiter, S. B. Lyerly, H. J.
Spencer.
(4) Sunday School Extension : S. B. McLean, S. A. Ewart, G.
M. Beaty, Dr. R. H. Lafferty.
5. Bible Causers. B. Lyerly, J. W. Stork, J. W. Pharr.
6. Synod's Home Missions— L E. Wallace, B. B. Shankel, C H^
Caldwell, D. S. Monteith.
7. Orphans' Home— W. H. Johnston, R. W. Culbertson, Wm.
Anderson, W. A. Jamison.
8. Schools and Colleges— W. R. Coppedge, J. R. Bridges, R. N.
Nesbit, Beatty Faires, G. M. Rose, Jr.
9. Sabbath and Family Religion— R. J. Mcllwain, B. B. Shankel,
W. S. Hamiter, Thos. Spratt, Wm. Ross.
10. Evangelist— A. A. Walker, C. E. White, T. G. Hardie.
11. Men's and Women's Societies — W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., L. R,
Walker, W. C. Underwood, J. R. Irwin.
12. Auditing — J. F, Jamison, J. O. Thomas.
13. Stewardship— A. A. Walker*, H. E. Gurney, W. H. Frazer, L. R.
Walker, W. E. Price, M. B. Spier, F. S. Neal, J. H. Wearn.
14. Men's Work— P. S. Gilchrist, C. P. Brown, H. J. Spencer, J. M.
Oldham, J. P. Marsh, M. E. Trotter, J. M. Harris.
'15. Sessional Records— A. H. Atkins, W. C. Rourk, M. E. Trotter,
J. M. Harris, A. M. Gray, J. P. Marsh, R. S. Burwell, A. R.
Shaw, R. W. Culbertson, F. L. Pickett, Q. N. Honeycutt, W. T.
Smith.
♦Resigned.
(Continued on back inside cover)
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113th Stated Session, Sugaw Creek Church
April 1345, 1926
Called Meeting . .... Charlotte, N. C, January 18, 1926
Adjourned Meeting .... Charlotte, N. C, February 1, 1926
Adjourned Meeting .... Charlotte, N. C, March 1, 1926
Adjourned Meeting Charlotte, N. C, May 10, 1926
Next Adjourned Meeting . Charlotte, N. C, 2 P. M., July 5, 1926
Next Stated Meeting . . . Banks, 10 A. M., October 26, 1926
STATED SPRING SESSION
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in 113th Stated Session at
at Sugaw Creek Church, Tuesday, April 13, 1926, and was
opened with a sermon by the Moderator, Rev. C. E. White,
on Luke 19:10.
The Presbytery was constituted with prayer by the
Moderator.
The roll was called and the following found present or
came in later as indicated :
Ministers: G. G. Huntington, A. R. Shaw, A. A. Mc-
Geachy (2), C C. Beam, Wm. Black, M. E. Sentelle, W. H.
Johnston (2), T. C McGehee, J. W. Grier, R. J. Mcllwain,
H. E. Gurney (2), L. W. Brown (2), C. H. Little, B. B.
Shankel, W. R. Coppedge, G. F. Bell, R. S. Burwell (2), A. S.
Johnson, J. J. Douglass (2), C. E. White, A. S. Anderson (2),
R. W. Culbertson, J. G. Garth, J. W. Stork, W. C. Rourk, J.
M. Walker (2), W. C Underwood, W. H. Frazer, Q. N.
Honeycutt, S. A. Ewart, W. S. Hamiter (2), S. B. Lyerly,
Theo. F. Huneycutt, J. F. Ligon, M. E. Peabody, W. B. S.
Chandler, H. H. Cassady (2), W. P. Chedester, W. T. Smith,
A. A. Walker, R. P. Walker, J. H. Smith (2), I. E. Wallace
(2), C. G. Long (2), C. W. Sommerville, L. R. Walker, A. H.
Atkins, Wilson W. Moore (2), S. B. McLean— 49.
Ministers not present: J. M. Moore*, G. P. Stevens*,
R. T. Coit*, W. C. McLauchlin*, R. L. Patrick, R. S. Latti-
mer*, A. H. Temple*, R. H. M. Brown, W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr.,
J. A. McQueen, C. C. Anderson, L. H. Query— 12.
Churches represented: Albemarle First, J. M. Morrow;
Altan, R. W. Elliott ; Amity, John Catt ; Banks, O. W. Potts ;
Bethel, W. J. Knox; Bethlehem, Fred Clontz ; Caldwell
Memorial, M. W. Woodside ; Carmel, W. S. Alexander ; Cen-
tral Steel Creek, C. B. Choate ; Charlotte First, R. A. Dunn;
Charlotte Second, J. W. Pharr; Cooks Memorial, C. F.
Spain ; Cornelius, J. L Proctor ; Hopewell, E. V. Kdrns ;
Huntersville, J. W. Monteith; Indian Trail, E. J. Stinson ;
Lee Park, A. F. Tiddy; Mallard Creek, W. S. Bennifield;
Matthews, N. O. Alexander; McGee, S. M. Alexander; Mon-
roe First, W. A. Henderson; Mt. Gilead, W. B. Cochran;
Mulberry, H. C. Rhyne ; Newell, W. A. Douglass; North
Charlotte, H. M. Nicholson; Norwood, G. W. Stinson;
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Pageland, D. E, Clark ; Paw Creek, G. A. Todd ; Peg-ram
Street, M. E. Trotter; Philadelphia, D. A. Henderson; Pine-
ville, W. A. Rodgers ; Pleasant Hill, E. W. McKnight ; Prov-
idence, J. B. Coffey; Ramah, D. W. Mayes; Rehoboth, E. J.
Sims ; Robinson, D. A. Johnston ; Seversville, R. O. Robin-
son ; Sharon, J. F. Black; Siler, E. H. Morris, Steele Creek,
Wirt Pegram ; St. Pauls, N. C. White ; Sugaw Creek, R. W.
McConnell; Tenth Ave., T. E. Grey; Thomasboro, W. L.
Summerville ; Turner, J. C. Richardson ; Wadesboro, W. C.
Via; Walkersville, S. B. McWhirter ; Waxhaw, J. R. Belk;
West Avenue, W. A. Jamison ; Westminster, D. S. Mon-
teith ; Williams Memorial, W. T. Hutchison ; Wilmore, C. D.
Wilson.
Rev. Q. N. Honeycutt, Th.D., of Walkersville was elected
Moderator by acclamation.
The election of Stated Clerk and Treasurer was made the
first order of Wednesday after the morning call.
Rev. C. G. Long was elected Temporary Clerk.
The following hours of meeting were named by the com-
mittee on Devotional Exercises : 9 a. m. to 12 N. ; 2 p. m. to 5
p. m. and 8 p. m. to adjourn at will. The report was adopted.
The minutes of the last adjourned meeting were read and
approved.
Presbytery adjourned with prayer by Rev. W. H. Frazer
until 9 a. m. tomorrow morning.
WEDNESDAY— 9:00 A. M.
Presbytery met at 9:00 a. m. and was opened with devo-
tional exercises conducted by Rev. W. H. Frazer, D.D.
Rev. J. G. Garth was appointed to report the actions of
Presbytery for the daily papers.
The Moderator appointed the following committees.
Standing Committees :
Bills and Overtures: C. E. White, J. W. Grier, R. J. Mc-
Ilwaine, J. M. Morrow, R. A. Dunn.
Judicial: C. H. Little, W. R. Coppedge, L. W. Brown,
M. E. Trotter, M. W. Woodside.
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Calls and Supplies: J. F. Ligon, W. T. Smith, W. P.
Chedester, N. C. White, S. B. McWhirter.
Records of Presbytery: R. J. Mcllwaine, C. W. Somer-
ville, W. H. Johnstone, J. W. Monteith, G. D. Grey.
Minutes of Ssmod: T. F. Huneycutt, W. C. Underwood,
S. A. Ewart, C. B. Choate, J. W. Pharr.
Home Missions: G. F. Bell, S. B. Lyerly, T. F. Huney-
cutt, G. W. Stinson, D. E. Clark.
Leave of Absence: A. H. Atkins, W. W. Moore, C. C.
Beam, W. H. Anderson, Fred Clontz.
Devotional Exercises: M. E. Peabody, R. W. McConnell.
Church Societies: L. R. Walker, M. E. Trotter, S. B.
Lyerly.
Nominations: Q. N. Huneycutt, J. G. Garth, J. M.
Walker, William Black, W. B. Cochran.
The dissolution of the pastoral relation between Rev.
R. P. Walker, D.D., and the churches at Paw Creek and
Cook's Memorial was made second order of the morning.
Schools and Colleges was given second order of the af-
ternoon session.
Sabbath Observance and Family Religion was given
third order of the afternoon session.
Report on Evangelism was g'iven third order of the
morning session.
Report of the installation of Rev. C. G. Long as pastor of
Albemarle First Church was adopted.
To the Presbytery of Mecklenburg in session at Sugaw Creek :
The commission appointed to install Rev. Chalmers G. Long as
pastor of the church at Albemarle begs to report that it performed
this duty on Sunday evening, March 28th.
There were present the Revs. J. W. Walker, J. W. Stork and
W. H. Frazer.
Dr. Frazer presided, preached the sermon, and propounded the
constitutional questions. Rev. J. M. Walker delivered the charge to
the pastor, and Rev. J. W. Stork, the charge to the people.
Respectfully submitted^
W. H. FRAZER, Chairman.
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Report of Committee on Vacancy and Supply was
adopted as follows :
Your Committee on Vacancy and Supply respectfully reports
the following churches not regularly supplied with preaching either
by pastors or stated supplies: Rockingham; Amity; West Avenue,
Charlotte; Hopewell; and the groups composed of Candor, Biscoe
and Macedonia; Polkton and Peachland; and Waxhaw and Six
Mile Creek.
The services of W. G. Thomas, a student in Union Theological
Seminary have been secured to supply Candor, Biscoe, and Mace-
donia, during the summer months. Under the direction of the
Home Mission Committee, Rev. R. J. Mcllwain will supply Polkton
and Peachland; and Mr. Frank Grier has been giving Waxhaw
regular services. With the approval of Presbytery he will continue
to do so; and will also supply Six Mile Creek.
No vacant church in the Presbytery has asked that its name be
listed with Assembly's Bureau of Vacancy and Supply; and no
preacher has requested that his name be listed with the same
bureau.
We recommend (i) that Presbytery commend this committee to
the vacant churches of the Presbytery, or those that become vacant.
We are ready to serve these vacant churches in every way possible,
if we may do so with their consent and approval.
(2) That this committee be listed with the other permanent
committees of the Presbytery in the directory in Presbytery's min-
utes, for the information of those who may wish to avail themselves
of its help.
3. That Rev. J. G. Garth be substituted on the committee in the
stead of Rev. C. C. Anderson, who is to labor without the bounds
of the Presbytery.
Respectfully submitted,
A. A. WALKER.
Rev. J. G. Garth was elected Stated Clerk to fill the un-
expired term of Rev. C. C. Anderson, resigned.
The pastoral relation between Rev. R. P. Walker, D.D.,
and Paw Creek and Cook's Memorial churches was dis-
solved and he was granted a letter of dismission to Enoree
Presbytery, Synod of South Carolina.
The report of the Evangelistic Committee was read,
amended and adopted as follows :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON EVANGELISM
The results ofthe evangelistic services conducted under the
direction of your Committee on Evangelism during the past year,
confirm our behef in the high spiritual value of such meetings. In
the judgment of your committee, there is one danger to be guarded
against in the custom of the annual evangelistic meeting; and it is
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that there might arise a tendency to believe that only at such meet-
ings may special efforts be made to save men. The fact that the
"winning of souls" is an all-year task cannot be over-emphasized.
Nor must we be unmindful of the further fact that the deepening of
the spiritual life of the church through a series of evangelistic
meetings, if not a single name be added to the church roll, is a
rich compensation for the time and money expended. It frequently
happens that the enlarging of the spiritual vision is the great need
of a church, and the truest evidence of a revival.
At the Spring session of Presbytery, a year ago, your commit-
tee, with approval of Presbytery, made assignments for 56 meet-
ings. In 13 of the churches where these assignments were made, no
meetings were held ; 18 meetings were held by the preachers assigned,
and 24 were held by others than those assigned. Meetings were
held in a total of 331 days ; with 283 professions of faith ; 199 ac-
cessions to the church by profession, and 38 by letter; making a
total of 2.2i'7 additions to the church.
Your committee would recommend :
1. That Presbytery express its appreciation of the cordial sup-
port and co-operation on the part of the preachers who conducted
the meetings, and the sessions and churches for releasing their pas-
tors for this work. Their cheerful compliance without requests has
made our task a joy
2. That Presbytery again call upon the pastors of the Presby-
tery to aid in the evangelistic meetings during this year ; and the
sessions and churches to lend their pastors to this cause.
3. That the responsibility for the arranging of these meetings
is with the pastors and churches where the meetings are to be held.
And that such pastors and churches, as soon as possible, after the
close of this Prebytery, communicate with the preacher assigned, to
perfect the plans for the meetings.
4. That the churches where the meetings are held pay the ex-
penses of the preachers conducting them.
5. That the churches where the meetings are held be instructed
to report to the chairman of this committee, (a) the date set for
the meetings as early as practicable after the arrangements have
been completed; and (b) that immediately after the close of the
meeting they report in the following items : preacher conducting
meeting; date; number of days; number of professions of faith;
number of accessions by profession; and number of accessions by
letter.
6. That at the Fall meeting of Presbytery an hour be devoted to
the study and discussion of Evangelism under the direction of your
Committee on Evangelism.
7. That J. M. Walker, G. F. Bell, and W. H. Frazer be ap-
pointed a committee with instructions to report at the Fall meeting
of the Presbytery, defining the duties and functions of the Com-
mittee on Evangelism.
8. That the following assignments for meetings to be held dur-
ing the year, be approved :
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Robinson, C. G. Long; Allen, W. T. Smith; Cornelius, S. B.
Lyerly; Bethel, A. A. Walker, Indian Trail, J. F. Ligon ; Siler, C. H.
Little; Peachland, J. M. Walker; Polkton, J. W. Stork; Troy, J. W.
Stork; Wadeville, J. G. Garth; Star, R. J. Mcllwain, Mt. Carmel,
C. E. White; Marston, W. B. S. Chandler; Roberdel, A. S. Ander-
son; Brainard, S. B. McLean; Cameronian, C. E. White; Oakboro,
A. A. Walker; Locust, W. B. Mcllwaine ; Stanfield, B. B. Shankel ;
Morgan Memorial, S. B. McLean; Pageland, J. W. Stork; Beulah,
W. T. Smith; Salem, R. J. Mcllwain; Candor, G. F. Bell; Biscoe,
M. E. Peabody; Macedonia, J. G. Garth; ;North Charlotte, G. F.
Bell; Unionville, J. M. Walker; Bethlehem, W. H. Frazer; Midland,
A. A. Walker; Badin, L. R. Walker; Palestine, S. A. Ewart ; Cam-
den, L. W. Brown ; Lilesville, S. B, Lyerly ; Midway, W. T. Smith ;
Oakridge, Marshville, Wilmore, Ellerbe, Norman, McLean Memo-
rial, Rourks Chapel, Pegram Street, Walkersville, Bethany, Reho-
both, and Altan to be arranged for by their pastor; and that the
pastors of churches or groups having mission points arrange for
meetings at those places.
Respectfully submitted,
A. A. WALKER.
C. E. WHITE.
Discussion of the Jurisdiction of the Evangelistic Com-
mittee was deferred to afternoon session.
The Presbytery enjoyed an excellent sermon by Rev.
Lynn R. Walker, D.D., from Jno. 1 :46, on the subject of
Personal Evangelism.
The following were added to the Sessional Records Com-
mittee : W. A. Jamison, Theo. F. Huneycutt, H. G. Rhine,
and Robt. Freeman.
Benediction was pronounced by Mr. Walker and Presby-
tery took recess until 2 :(X) p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION
Examination for licensure of Mr. T. F. Grier was fixed
as first order for Thursday morning. Rev. J. R. Bridges,
D.D., was given fourth order of the afternoon session in in-
terest of Presbyterian Standard.
The Presbytery proceeded to elect commissioners to
attend the General Assembly at Pensacola, Fla., May 20-28,
1926.
It was moved that the four receiving the highest number
of votes be made principals, and the four receiving the next
highest number be alternates.
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The following were elected in order :
Ministers: W. H. Frazer, D.D., R. J. Mcllwain, C. E.
White, J. F. Ligon ; alternates in order: W. B. Mcllwaine,
L. R. Walker, D.D., W. B. S. Chandler, and Q. N. Huney-
cutt, Th.D.
Elders: Principals: Frank E. Neal (Sugaw Creek),
Bruce Hutchison (Williams Memorial), M. W. Woodside
(Caldwell Memorial), and Morris E. Trotter (Pegram St.) ;
alternates: W. B. Cochrane (Mt. Gilead), O. W. Potts
(Banks), N. J. Phillips (Wilmore), and J. W. McClung
(Charlotte First).
Report of the Stanly Hall Committee was read by Rev.
A. A. Walker and received :
At the meeting of the Presbytery at Thomasboro, September
15, 16, 1925, a committee composed of A. A. Walker, W. E, Price, and
A. C. Hunneycutt, was appointed to inquire into the status of Stanly
Hall at Locust.
Your committee recommended the election of three men to act as
trustees of Stanly Hall with J. A. Little and W. L. Wallis. Accord-
ingly, J. F. Ligon, W. E. Price and S. B. McLean were elected. But
the minutes of that Presbytery failed to record that election. In-
asmuch as this inquiry was projected to remove any cloud on the
title of this property, and because of the failure of the minutes to
record this election may make a defect in their authority.
Resolved that the election of these men, J. F. Ligon, W. E. Price,
and S. B. McLean, be recorded on thd minutes of this Presbytery
and date from September 16, 1925, with the above explanation.
A. A. WALKER.
W. E. PRICE.
A paper was read by Rev. R. S. Burwell from Barium
Springs and received as information.
Report of the ordination and installation of Rev. J. C.
McGehee as pastor of Robinson and Allen churches was
made and he was enrolled as a member of the Presbytery
after signing the obligation. Records of the commission are
as follows :
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FOR ROBINSON CHURCH
Charlotte, N. C, April 12, 1926.
To the Presbytery of Mecklenburg, 113th Stated Session, Sugaw
Creek Church, April 13, 1926:
The commission heretofore appointed by the Presbytery to
ordain Rev. J. C. McGehee, licentiate, and install him as pastor of
Robinson and Allen churches, makes the following report, viz :
At II o'clock a. m. on April 11, 1926, the commission, composed
of Rev. A. A. Walker, as chairman. Rev. T. F. Huneycutt and Rev.
S. B. McLean and Ruling Elder W. E. Price, met at Robinson Church
at the regular morning service and after the singing of one or more
hymns and the invocation by Rev. A. A. Walker, the commission of
Presbytery was constituted with prayer by Rev. T. F. Honeycutt.
Rev. A. A. Walker presided as chairman of the commission, Rev.
S. B. McLean acted as secretary, and after brief recital by the
chairman of previous proceedings ofthe Presbytery preparatory to
the ordination, pointing out the nature and importance of the or-
dinance, Rev. J. C. McGehee was called upon by the commission to
preach and he did preach a sermon, due notice having been pre-
viously given himi by the chairman, as a part of his trials for or-
dination (this having been omitted by the Presbytery for lack of
time on the occasion of his examination for ordination), and his
sermon was unanimously approved by the commission. His text
was I Cor, i :23, 24.
Following the trial sermon of Mr. McGehee and its approval by
the commission and the singing of a hymn, Rev. A. A. Walker
preached from the text Ephesians i :22, 23, especially the words,
"The Church, which is His Body."
The questions for ordination prescribed in the Book of Church
Order were then proposed by the chairman to the candidate for or-
dination and being answered in the affirmaive, the usual questions
to the congregation were then proposed and affirmative answers
being given, the candidate. Rev, J, C. McGehee, was then set apart
to the holy office of the Gospel ministry, with prayer and laying on
of hands of the Presbytery, according to the apostolic example,
after which the chairman and other members of the Presbytery ex-
tended the right hand of fellowsip, and declaration was then made
that Rev. J. C. McGehee has been regularly elected, ordained and
installed pastor of Robinson Church, agreeably to the Word of God,
and according to the Constitution of the Presbyterian Church in the
United States.
A charge to the pastor was then delivered by Rev. S. B. McLean,
and a charge to the congregation by Ruling Elder W. E. Price, and
the service was closed with the benediction by Rev. T. F. Huneycutt.
Respectfully submitted,
S. B. McLEAN, Secretary.
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FOR ALLEN CHURCH
Charlotte, N. C, April 12, 1926.
To the Presbytery of Mecklenburg, 113th Stated Session, Sugaw
Creek Church, April 13, 1926:
The commission heretofore appointed by the Presbytery to in-
stall Rev. J. C. McGehee as pastor of Allen Church makes the fol-
lowing report :
At 3 o'clock p. m., April 11, 1926, the commission, composed of
Rev. A. A. Walker as chairman, Rev. T, F. Honeycutt, Rev. S. B.
McLeart and ruling elder W. E. Price, met at Allen Church at the
regular hour forthe afternoon service, in the presence of the con-
gregation, Rev. S. B. McLean acting as Secretary.
After the singing of a hymn, the commission of Presbytery was
constituted with prayer by Rev. S. B. McLean. Rev. A. A. Walker,
who presided, preached a sermon from the text Ephesians 5 125,
"Christ also loved the Church, and gave Himself for it."
The chairman of the commission then made a brief recital of
the previous proceedings of the Presbytery in reference to the
relationship contemplated between Rev. J. C. McGehee and Allen
Church, his ordination at Robinson Church on the morning of April
II, 1926, following which the questions for installation prescribed in
the Book of Church Order were proposed by the chairman to the
pastor and to the congregation in order and all were answered
affirmatively. Prayer was then offered by Rev. A. A. Walker. Rev.
T. F. Huneycutt charged the pastor and ruling elder W. E. Price
charged te chongregation. Rev. J. C. McGehee pronounced the
benediction.
S. B. McLEAN, Secretary.
Rev. E. G. Carson of the First A. R. P. Church of Char-
lotte was received as a visiting brother.
Rev. A. A. Walker offered his resignation as secretary
and chairman of Stewardship Committee which was ac-
cepted.
Stewardship Committee's report was read and the clerk
was instructed to send in this report to the Assembly's
Stewardship Committee, before the meeting of General As-
sembly.
REPORT OF STEWARDSHIP COMMITTEE
MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
The Stewardship Committee of Mecklenburg Presbytery held
conferences during January and February in the following churches :
Providence, West Avenue, Marshville, Roberdell, Candor, Norwood
and Hopewell. Representatives from over seventy churches were
prsent at these conferences. Rev. J. M. Walker, Rev. W. H. Frazer,
D.D., Rev. J, F. Ligon, and your Secretary spoke on the needs of
the Causes of our Church. An open conference was conducted by
J. B. Spillman, Synod's Secretary of Stewardship, following a
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questionnaire to' bring out tlie most important questions involving
Stewardship Stewardship, the proper way of conducting an Every
Member Canvass, how the money given to the Benevolent Causes
should be collected and distributed. These Conferences were well
attended and much interest was shown in them. It isthe feeling of
your Committee that these conferences were well worth the ffort
that was put into them.
The president of the Men-of-the-Presbytery, Mr. C. Parks
Brown, rendered us much assistance in providing teams of Laymen
to go out to churches that had not been accustomed to putting on
an Every Member Canvass and presenting the need of the work and
showing them how to conduct a Canvass. Reports from these teams
were very encouraging and show that there is a great opportunity
for using Laymen to get a better financial system in our churches.
Up to the time of preparing this report fifty-nine churches have
reported as follows : Number subscriptions to Benevolences 5,372,
amount subscribed to Benevolences $147,176, number subscriptions
to Current Expenses 5,935, amount subscribed to Current Expenses
$173,555, total amount subscribed $320,731. The Quota for the Pres-
bytery for this year was $174,373, so that we are short of our Quota
$27,551. This amount could easily be raised if the officers of our
Church were more diligent in following-up the Canvass. Thirty-
two churches have failed to report and are as follows : Allen, Altan,
Badin, Bethany, Beulah, Biscoe, Camden, Candor, Carmel, Hopewell,
Huntersville, Lee Park, Lilesville, Locust, Marston, Matthews, Mid-
land, Morgan's Memorial, Mt. Gilead, Norwood, Palestine, Pee Dee,
Porter, Rockingham, Salem, Sharon, Stanfield, Turner, Wadeville,
Waxhaw.
The following commission was appointed to install Rev.
W. H. Johnston pastor of EUerbe, Mt. Carmel and Norman
Churches, Revs. W. T. Smith, J. W. Stork, W. R. Coppedge,
and elder J. I. Campbell with elder W. B. Cochran as alter-
nate.
Rev. W. R. Coppedge submitted the report of the Com-
mittee on Schools and Colleges which was adopted :
As Chairman of Presbytery's Committee on Schools and Col-
leges, I desire to submit the following:
1. A copy of President Martin's report of Davidson College to
the constituent Presbyteries.
2. Financial report of Mrs. Elva C. Harris, Superintendent of
Albemarle Normal and Industrial Institute.
3. An extract from a letter from Mrs. Harris under date of
February 26, 1926.
4. Report of the President of Queens College.
5. Copy of report of Chairman of Synod's Committee on
Schools and Colleges to the Presbyterial Chairman.
We recommend that these reports be read for information.
Though conditions are not favorable for making any special efforts
in behalf of these schools, it is important to keep their interests
and merits before the minds of our people with a view to securing
special contributions.
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It is recommended that Presbytery approve the special meet-
ing of Synod's committee at Montreat suggested by its Chairman,
and that special prayer for our schools be offered in connection
with this report,
W. R. COPPEDGE, Chairman.
The Committee on Leave of Absence made a partial re-
port. See Appendix. The report was accepted and special
prayer was offered by Drs. Frazer and Bridges for schools
and colleges and also God's blessing upon the wife of Dr.
A. R. Shaw in her sickness.
The report of the Committee on Sabbath Observance
and family Religion was submitted by Rev. R. J. Mcllwain
and received and the following recommendations adopted :
REPORT ON SABBATH AND FAMILY RELIGION
That pastors avail themselves of the opportunity to secure
most wholesome and inspiring literature, nov^ available at the
headquarters of the Lord's Day Alliance at New York and of Mr.
R. E. Magill of Richmond, Va., and that they call the attention of
their people to this exceptional opportunity. Especially in the
magazine. The Lord's Day Leader, and a booklet for use in family
prayer, compiled by Mr. Magill.
That the annual offering for the Lord's Day Alliance recom-
mended by the Assembly be taken up in the Presbytery.
Rev. C. W. Somerville, D.D., in the discussion of the re-
port spoke on Sabbath Observance, and Rev. J. G. Garth on
Family Religion.
Rev. J. R. Bridges, D.D., was heard in behalf of the
Presbyterian Standard.
Mr. W. E. Price, Treasurer for Presbytery, reported and
the report was adopted.
FINANCIAL REPORT OF W. E. PRICE, TREASURER OF
MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY YEAR ENDING
MARCH 31, 1926
Causes Receipts Disbursements Bal.
Bible Cause $ 148.65 $ 148.65
Barium Springs Orphanage 2,469.74 2,469.74
Education & Mins. Relief 1,530.82 1,530.82
Schools and Colleges 1,910.25 1,910.25
Foreign Missions 7,596.44 7,596.44
Assembly's Home Missions 3,218.86 3,218.86
Synod's Home Missions 1,618.04 1,618.04
Presbytery's Home Missions —
Credit Balance forward 2,452.98
Receipts for year i8,755-59
$21,184.57 $19,094.99 $ 2,113.58
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S. S. Extension and Publication _ 611.17 611. 17
Assembly's Training School 181.98 181.98
European Relief 5.48 5.48
Totals $40,500.00 $38,386.42 $ 2,113.58
Respectfully submitted,
W. E. PRICE, Treasurer.
ATTEST :
We hereby certify that we have carefull}^ checked the books of
W. E. Price, Treasurer of Mecklenburg Presbytery, and find same
correct as per above statement.
J., F. JAMISON.
J. E. THOMAS, Auditors.
Rev.. S. B. Lyerly was added to the Standing Committee
on Men's and Women's Societies.
Rev. R. W. Culbertson presented the request that the
salary of $800.00 paid by the Pleasant Hill Church be re-
duced to $600.00, which was granted.
Presbytery took recess to meet at 8:00 p. m.
NIGHT SESSION— 8 :0a P. M.
The devotional exercises were led by Rev. J. M. Walker.
He then introduced the Popular Meeting on Home Missions.
Mr. Walker presented a report of the work for the past
year. Different phases of the Home Missions work were
discussed by the following: Rev. A. A. Walker, Superin-
tendent of Home Missions, W. E. Price, Treasurer; ruling
elder, Frank S. Neal, Rev. C. H. Little, Rev. W. T. Smith,
and Rev. Theo. F. Huneycutt.
The report of Home Missions Committee was referred
to the Standing Committee on Home Missions.
Rev. J. M. Walker led the closing prayer and the Presby-
tery adjourned to meet at 9:00 a. m. Thursday.
THURSDAY MORNING— 9:00 O'CLOCK
The devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. Theo.
F. Huneycutt.
Minutes of Wednesday's sessions were read and ap-
proved.
Calls to W. W. Moore from Cornelius and Bethel
Churches were returned by him, having been declined.
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Rev. J. A. McQueen was given permission to labor out-
side the bounds of Presbytery until fall meeting.
Mr. T. F. Grier, a candidate for the ministry under Pres-
bytery's care requested licensure under the extraordinary
clause. His A. B. degree from Erskine College was accepted
in lieu of examination in classical branches ; and his work in
Louisville Seminary in lieu of examination on original lan-
guages and church history.
Mr. Grier was examined on Theology by Dr. A. S. John-
son.
Rev. J. G. Garth examined him on Church Government
and the Sacraments.
Inasmuch as subjects for the various parts had not been
assigned, the thesis, exegesis, and popular lecture were
omitted and the candidate preached a sermon.
The examination as a whole was sustained and the can-
didate was licensed in due form.
The report of the Committee on Foreign Missions was
submitted by Rev. J. F. Ligon.
The report was adopted as follows :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN MISSIONS
Your Committee on Foreign Missions begs leave to submit the
following report :
There has come into the hands of your committee from the
Executive Committee at Nashville an unusually comprehensive and
illuminating report of the past year's Foreign Mission activities.
Your committee wishes that it might submit the entire report for
your information and consideration, and refrains from doing so
only because of the voluminous nature of the report. We have
undertaken to give you a general review of the work as a whole
with a short statement of the work in each mission station.
General Review of the Work as a Whole
In spite of peculiar difficulties in three of our largest missions,
the additions last year were 4,754, an increase of nearly 500 over the
previous year, bringing the total of our foreign communicants to
48,455, this number, however, being but a part of the real total,
since in several of our mission countries thousands of our converts
have been transferred to independent native churches.
During the year 27 new missionaries were added, and 25 lost
from the roll by death and resignation, the number now totalling
516, including 34 doctors and 27 trained nurses.
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Amid heathenism and spiritual destitution of which we in this
favored land have no experience and scarcely any conception, our
Church is now preaching, teaching, and living the Gospel through
54 stations, 304 organized congregations, 1,696 outstations, 3,278
trained native workers, 1,008 mission schools and Bible classes with
42,220 students, 1,511 Sabbath Schools, with 61,850 pupils, 12 mission
dispensaries and 23 hospitals, treating last year over 180,000 patients
and through daily clinical practice reaching hundreds of thousands
more with the Gospel.
Statement of the Work In Each Mission Station
Africa. In our African Mission last year the commercializing of
our mission territory has gone steadily forward with its accustomed
ill effects upon our mission work. Our churches are weakened by
the removal of numbers of our Christians to highway and railway
construction camps and their subjection there to the temptations
due to more spending money than they have ever had, separation
from their church homes, and the corrupting influence of worldly
and often blatantly infidel white employers.
While the forces of demoralization are coming in like a flood,
testing the courage and capacity of missionaries and the character
of native believers, yet it is a joy to know that our missionaries are
meeting the test with fortitude and redoubled energy and that many
of our native Christians in construction camps are not only holding
their religious services but are actively engaged in the evangeliza-
tion of their fellow-workmen in the camps.
Our five main stations, are so situated as to give us a strategic
grasp of our whole mission territory in the Congo and a means of
eventually reaching, through outstation schools and preaching
points manned by native teachers and evangelists, the 2,000,000 for
whom our Church has assumed responsibility. The goal, though far
off, is in sight.
Brazil. The last year in Brazil saw our 52 missionaries labor-
ing at 13 main stations and reaching some 174 regular preaching
points. In all our three missions progressive programs of advance
along all lines have been enthusiastically launched with aggressive
committees in charge of them, and results are already in evidence.
The evangelistic zeal of our missionaries is swiftly rising and con-
versions are multiplying rapidly.
In our mission schools there are more than a thousand young
people. But this thousand would speedily become 2,000 if only we
had room to accommodate the young people who are begging for a
Christian education. Our Southern Presbyterian Church has no
needier mission field than Brazil nor one readier to receive the
Gospel.
China. In China last year our 201 missionaries labored in the
provinces of Kiangsu and Chekiang in a territory for which we are
responsible containing a densely crowded population of some 18,000,-
000. Among them we have 13 main stations, 13 hospitals, union
work in five cities, 348 preaching points, 234 schools with nearly
8,000 students, 158 Sunday Schools with 10,400 pupils, and a com-
municant membership of 11,000. In this territory there are at least
20,000 villages where Christ has not yet been preached. Despite
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war and agitation more than 1,300 were added to the Church by pro-
fession and baptism.
Amid the multitudinous new currents of thought and feeling all
over China, especially among the students, our schools have suc-
ceeded wonderfully in maintaining their attendance and in holding
their students true to the teachings and standards of Christ.
Japan. The Presbyterian Church in Japan, whose distinctive
name is "The Church of Christ in Japan" has fought its way up
through the many critical and doctrinal problems of modern days
and now stands out as the most conservative as well as the largest
Christian body in Japan, numbering nearly 40,000 church members.
Our main work in Japan has been evangelistic, carried on at 68
out-stations. As soon as we nurse a little group of believers up to
the point of self-support, it is tranferred tothe Japanese Presbyte-
rian Church and no longer reported by us. Our missionary force is
a pioneering body, breaking up new ground, planting churches, and
then marching on to hitherto unbroken territory. This is our mis-
sion and our glory.
The call for such work is unspeakably great. Says one of our
station reports, "The opportunities are so great I cannot measure
them, while the need is so appalling I try not to think of it." But
God is working with our missionaries. Writes one of them, "I
have never known a time when the work was so encouraging and
so fruit-bearing."
Korea. In Korea our Church is responsible for a population of
3,000,000 among whom we have 92 missionaries, 5 main stations, 5
hospitals, III organized congregations, 500 other places of worship,
and a communicant membership of over 10,000. There were added
last year on confession of faith nearly 1,400 new members.
In Korea as in Africa our missionaries are facing new and very
difficult conditions. The old Korean seclusion is gone and the last
few years have seen flooding into Korea, Bolshevism, Marxism,
Tolstoism, Naturalism, Agnosticism, Atheism, and various other
isms. Books teaching these things are entering the country by
thousands. Young Korea, torn from the old anchorage, is being
dashed hither and thither by waves of new thought. It is not a
time for pessimism or fear but for earnest prayer, for vigorous
evangelism, and for Christian education.
In recent years the Koreans have been showing an enthusiasm
for education unmatched in history. The number in our day schools
and Bible schools together reaches the amazing total of 48,000. But
the lamentable lack of physical equipment for our schools and
their inability to reach the government standards and secure gov-
ernment recognition, is driving great numbers of students that
should be in our mission schools into the government schools whose
atmosphere is atheistic. Thus the Korean Church is seeing her
future and vitally necessary leaders drafted into the ranks of the
enemies of Christ.
It is in the educational field that the Korean Church is facing its
crisis. Shall the future leaders of Korea be Christlike men and
women, the product of our Christian schools and colleges, or shall
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they be worldly-hearted atheists, the product of the government
schools? For two years the Korean Mission has been making an
earnest appeal tothe home church for $120,000 with which to provide
two recognized schools, meeting government requirements, one for
boys and one for girls, but it has asked in vain.
Mexico. Until a few years ago when Mexico was redistricted
among the denominations, our Church was at work in Northern
Mexico. The fruit of that work is a Presbytery of Mexican
churches, self-supporting, self-governing, and self-propagating.
Moving in 1920 from Northern to Southern Mexico and as-
suming responsibility for two and a quarter millions of people in
the territory adjoining that taken by our Northern Presbyterian
brethren, we have there today 27 missionaries in 6 main stations, i
hospital, 22 day schools with over 800 students, 46 Sunday Schools
with over 1,900 pupils, and a communicant membership of 2,300. In
the last five years converts have doubled, the ordained native work-
ers have increased five-fold, and the native contributions ten-fold.
The year's evangelistic work reached many large sections for
the first time. But so vast is the unreached territory, and so small
comparatively our force, that our stations cannot answer one-half
the calls for help that come to them. A great door and effectual
God has opened to us in Mexico. Let us press in.
Along this far-flung battle front, our faithful missionaries have
been pushing forward the Kingdom. Their tireless industry, their
Christlike love of the unlovely, their joy in self-forgetful service,
should be an example to us all, and challenge our unstinted support.
Financial Statement
Cost forthe year's work $1,279,964
Receipts from living donors $1,277,883
Receipts from legacies, etc. 20,633
$1,248,516
Deficit for year $ 31,448
Deficit for year ending March 31, 1925 240,249
Deficit on March 31, 1926 $ 271,697
In view of this increased deficit the Secretaries and Treasurers
are making a fresh analysis of every department of the work, be-
ginning with the home administration, with a view to securing
maximum efficiency at the least possible cost.
We recommend :
I. That churches, societies, and individuals assume definite
responsibility for definite parts of the Foreign Mission work, thus
establishing living contact with the foreign field through regular
quarterly letters received therefrom, it being understood of course
that contributions so applied shall be credited on the Church's For-
eign Mission apportionment.
2. That Church Schools of Missions studying foreign missions
be organized in every church in this Presbytery during the month
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of January in accordance with this new plan of fostering mission
study promoted by the Educational Department of the Foreign Mis-
sion Committee, and that they use the textbook on Brazil now be-
ing prepared, and the others recommended for these Schools of
Missions this year.
3. That all young People's Societies of this Presbytery be en-
couraged to secure from the Educational Deportment the special
missionary programs already prepared as they are called for in the
regular Young People's Society topic schedules.
That during this year all Sunday Schools be urged to study in-
tensively the work of our Korea Mission as called for by the For-
eign^ Mission Committee, and that they apply all their gifts to the
$60,000 being raised this year by our Sunday Schools for Korea, it
being understood, of course, that all of such offerings shall be
credited tothe church as part of its foreign mission apportionment,
and not as an additional offering.
5. That our Young People's Societies be urged to apply all their
foreign mission offerings to those special missionaries assigned by
the General Assembly to the Southern Presbyterian Young People's
Societies, it being understood that all such offerings shall be credited
to the church as part of its foreign mission apportionment and not
as an additional offering.
6. That whenever practical, ministers invite furloughed mis-
sionaries into their pulpits so that the foreign mission enterprise of
our Church may be personalized to our people through acquaint-
ance with these missionaries, remembering that such missionary
visits may be arranged through the Educational Department.
7. That ministers in all churches in this Presbytery be asked to
acquaint their congregations with more of the facts of our Foreign
Mission work, making sure that their members are correctly in-
formed as to the missionary enterprise, freely applying to the
Executive Committee of Foreign Missions for detailed statements,
information, and help when needed.
Respectfully submitted,
J. F. LIGON, Chairman.
The pastoral relation between Rev. J. J. Douglass and
the Wadesboro and Morven churches was dissolved and he
was granted a letter of dismission to Holston Presbytery.
Rev. G. F. Bell, D.D., submitted the report on Religious
Education which was adopted :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Your Committee on Religious Education respectfully report that
Sunday School reports from 'J2i churches have come into our hands.
A study of these reports is full of interest. Six of our churches re-
port more than one school. The Second Church, with three schools,
an enrollment of i,355, and total gifts of $3,774.00, is the largest.
Next comes Caldwell Memorial, with two schools, a large Cradle
Roll and Home Department, and an enrollment of 963, more than
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two hundred more than the church enrollment. Steele Creek is
third, with three schools and an enrollment of 726. The First
Church is fourth, with an enrollment of 607, but ranks second in
total gifts. And so on down the line to Wadeville, the sm,alles!t,
with an enrollment of 16. Some of the reports are incomplete in
vital particulars, such as the number of officers and teachers, or the
number of pupils admitted tothe Communion duringthe year. Only
2.Z schools report Cradle Rolls, and 11 Home Departments. We
should like to see a much larger use of these useful adjuncts and
feeders to the main Sunday School. Only five report a teacher
training class ; only three a missionary department, which is simply
a missionary committee charged with developing missionary educa-
tion and interest in the school; only 12 a workers' conference reg-
ularly held. Without this latter a progressive Sunday School is
almost impossible. Only 25 report gifts to foreign missions, and
with the exception of the Orphans' Home the other causes are as
poorly represented. Are we not missing a great opportunity to im-
plant the missionary idea and impulse in the Church of the future?
Aside from the four largest already mentioned several seem worthy
of special commendation : Siler, a small country church, and four
others for their teacher training classes ; Seversville and Thomas-
boro for their good all-round organizations ; Hamlet for its splendid
Cradle Roll of 131 members ; Hopewell for its Cradle Roll and
relatively large total enrollment; Mt. Gilead, Badin, Pegram Street,
Philadelphia, Tenth Avenue, Waxhaw, and West Avenue for having
both a Cradle Roll and a Home Department; Mallard Creek, West-
minister and several already mentioned for gifts to practically all of
the causes.
We recommend :
1. The larger use of the Cradle Roll, Home Department, Work-
ers' Conference, and Missionary Committee.
2. A more thorough education concerning and support of our
own Church's Gospel agencies and less relative emphasis on outside
miscellaneous Benevolences.
3. The establishment of outpost mission schools wherever there
is opportunity.
4. The general observance of Rally Day in October and a liberal
offering for Sunday School Extension and Publication.
5. That no program, however worthy, be permitted to inter-
fere with the regular schedule of Bible lessons.
6. The widespread and earnest development of Leadership
Training through :
I. Training Classes both for young people and present work-
ers in the local churches.
2. One or more Standard Training Schools within our bounds
annually.
3. One Unit Training Schools for groups of churches wherever
possible.
7. The organization of Vacation Church Schools as a proven
and effective means of religious education.
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8. The encouragement of Week-day Religious Education in co-
operation with our public schools.
9. The development of Young People's Organizations through
hearty co-operation with Rev. Walter Getty, Superintendent, and
the program, calendar of activities, Y. P. paper, and special de-
nominational programs issued under his direction.
ID. That Revs. M. E. Peabody, W. B. S. Chandler, W. S. Ham-
iter, and S. B. Lyerly ; and Messrs. W. E. Price, W. M. Wilcox, R.
H. Lafferty, M.D., and H. J. Spencer be added to this committee and
that, in co-operation with our denominational authorities, responsi-
bility for various phases of the work be distributed as follows, the
first named to act as chairman in each case.
General Chairman, G. F. Bell.
1. Children's Division, W. M. Wilcox, W. E. Price, and Rev.
M. E. Peabody.
2. Y. P. Division, Rev. W. B. S. Chandler, Rev. J. G. Garth,
Rev. W. W. Moore, and F. H. Bierman.
3. Leadership Training, Rev. W. S. Hamiter, Rev. S. B. Lyerly,
and H. J. Spencer.
4. S. S. Extension, Rev. S. B. McLean, S. A. Ewart, G. M.
Beaty and Dr. R. H. Lafferty.
Statistical reports are appended herewith. See Appendix.
G. F. BELL, Chairman.
The report of the Judicial Committee subbmitted by Rev.
W. R. Coppedge, D.D., was adopted :
REPORT OF JUDICIAL COMMITTEE
We recommend that the appeal of R. O. Alexander from the
action of the session of the First Presbyterian Church of Charlotte
be dismissed on the following grounds :
1. Mr. Alexander did not comply with the requirements of the
Book of Church Order, paragraph 277, first sentence.
2. Paragraph 298, next to last sentence, makes the giving of a
letter to a member on the retired roll to be at the discretion of the
session.
We recommend that Presbytery take no action on the overture
referred to us by Rev. J. E. Latham, on the ground that the Gen-
eral Assembly is competent to adjudicate the matter without our
advice, and will be better informed on the merits of the case.
Your committee excused Dr. Johnson from attending on its
session while considering the appeal from the session of the church
of which he is pastor.
C. H. LITTLE, Chairman.
W. R. COPPEDGE.
M. W. WOODSIDE.
The report of the Committee on Sessional Records was
made and received :
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REPORT ON SESSIONAL RECORDS
I. Books approved without exception :
Ramah, Banks, Morven, William's Memorial, St. Paul, Albe-
marle, Thomasboro, Mallard Creek, Westminster, Huntersville,
Hopewell, Badin, Troy, Star, Mulberry, Philadelphia, Central Steele
Creek, Tenth Avenue, Waxhaw, Monroe, Providence, McGhee, West
Avenue, Cook's Memorial, Charlotte First, Steele Creek, Caldwell
Memorial, Pleasant Hill,
n. Books approved with exception :
1. Meetings not held quarterly: Bethel, Oakboro, Matthews,
Lee Park, Alton, Cornelius, Beulah, Unionville, Siler (no meetings),
Wadeville, Norman.
2. Meetings not opened or closed with prayer : Bethel, Carmel,
Sharon, Pineville, Walkersville, Charlotte Second (71 meetings),
Hamlet.
3. Minutes not read and approved: Wilmore, Lee Park, Rob-
inson, Pee Dee, Norwood, Mt. Gilead, Seversville, Amity.
4. Minutes not signed by clerk: Ellerbee Springs, Hamlet.
5. No representative elected, or no report from representative :
Lee Park, Rehoboth, Bethany.
6. Book not before Presbytery: .Midland, Unionville.
S. A. EWART, Chairman.
The report of the Committee on General Assembly's
Minutes was made by Rev. R. J. Mcllwain and adopted:
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MINUTES OF GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
Your committee would report that they find nothing of special
interest to report except the matter of the change in paragraph 151
Book of Church Order proposed by the last General Assembly and
docketed at Presbytery last fall at Thomasboro to spring meeting.
We recommend that the change proposed be made.
R. J. McILWAIN, Chairman.
The report on Statistics was submitted by the Stated
Clerk and the report was adopted with its summary. See
Appendix.
The report on Men's Organizations was made by Rev.
L. R. Walker. See Appendix.
Presbytery then took recess until 1 :30 p. m.
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AFTERNOON SESSION
The report on Women's Organizations was made by
Rev. L. R. Walker and recommendations adopted :
WOMAN'S WORK
Your Committee on Woman's Work would offer the following
recommendations :
1. That by virtue of the fact that General Assembly has rec-
ognized the Woman's Auxiliary as the channel through which the
work of the women shall function, all ministers are urged to do all
in their power to enroll and enlist their women in this organization.
2. That all women's societies of Mecklenburg Presbytery be
reported under the head of Woman's Auxiliary, that all reports
from all women's organizations shall be forwarded to the Presby-
terial Recording Secretary before April ist.
3. That these shall be tabulated by said Secretary and presented
to Chairman of Women's Work at Presbytery. See Appendix.
Respectfully submitted,
LYNN R. WALKER.
S. B. LYERLY.
W. P. CHEDESTER.
The report on Bills and Overtures v^as submitted by Rev.
C. E. White. It was received and adopted :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON BILLS AND OVERTURES
Your committee has received and carefully considered several
overtures and respectfully submit the following report.
1. An overture to Synod in regard to the Stewardship office.
We endorse it and suggest it be sent up to Synod.
2. An overture to the General Assembly relating to the teach-
ing of the catechisms and revising the Child's Catechism. Your
committee would recommend the first part of overture be sent to
the Assembly but do not endorse the latter part or the revising of
Child's Catechism.
3. Another overture tothe Assembly concerning a deliverance
by the Assembly tothe Synod and Presbyteries. We recommend
it be sent up.
4. In reference to the overture of the American minute men,
your committee would recommend that this question be answered
in the negative, inasmuch as it is the fixed policy of our Church not
to interfere in civil affairs.
Overtures were adopted as follows :
Overture i. Mecklenburg Presbytery respectfully overtures the
General Assembly meeting in Pensacola, Fla., in May, 1926, to urge
the Executive Committee of Publication and Sabbath School Work
to continue to emphasize and encourage the teaching of the cate-
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chisms in every way, and particularly through all its field workers
and trainers of teachers.
Overture 2. Mecklenburg Presbytery respectfully overtures
the General Assembly meeting in Pensacola, Fla., in May, 19^, to
issue an earnest deliverance to all Synods and Presbyteries with
reference to the maintenance of the Assembly's full quota for Benev-
olences, that the present serious crisis in the treasuries of Benev-
olences may be met, and that a unified partnership of all the Synods
in and through the Assembly may be maintained.
Overture 3. Believing that the expenses of Synod's Stewardship
office should be kept at an economical minimum commensurate with
efficiency and that the payment of $100.00 per annum to Presbyterial
chairmen of Stewardship is unnecessary in view of the heavier
work done by many brethren without remuneration ; believing that
the present plan of financing the office is inequitable in that it
places the bulk of the burden upon the individual churches where
it does not belong and in that about half of the churches, including
many of the larger and abler, refuse to pay their assessment; and
believing further thatthe levying of an assessment on the individual
churches by Synod is of doubtful constitutionality and of still more
doubtful wisdom and propriety; Mecklenburg Presbytery respect-
fully overtures the Synod of North Carolina meeting at Statesville
in the fall of 1926, as follows :
1. To stop the payment of $100.00 each to the Presbyterial
chairmen of Stewardship.
2. After setting the appropriation for the expenses of Synod's
Stewardship office at a strict minimum consistent with efficiency, to
divide this sum as nearly as possible into three equal parts ; then to
ask the Assembly's Stewardship Committee to provide one part; to
ask the various beneficiary Synodical and Presbyterial committees
to provide one part on a pro rata basis ; and to prorate the third
part to the nine Presbyteries to be provided for by them through
the regular Presbyterial tax or in such way as they severally' may
see fit.
C. E. WHITE, Chairman.
J. W. GRIER.
R. J. McILWAIN.
The report on Calls and Supplies was made by Rev. W.
P. Chedester and was adopted :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CALLS AND SUPPLIES
Your Committee on Calls and Supplies begs to submit the fol-
lowing recommendations :
1. That the call of the Pegram Street Church for the pastoral
services of Rev. I. E. Wallace at a salary of $1,840 per year, payable
monthly, be found in order and that it be placed in his hands.
2. That the following requests be granted :
(i) Of Newell Church for the continuation of the services of
Rev. M. E. Peabody as stated supply until the next regular meeting
of Presbytery.
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(2) Of Williams Memorial Church for the services of Dr. A. R.
Shaw as stated supply for the next six months.
(3) Of Mallard Creek Church for the services as supply of Dr.
W. H. Frazer until the fall meeting of Presbytery.
3. That the following requests for the privilege of changing
terms of calls be granted :
(i) Rehoboth forthe services of Rev. Q. N. Huneycutt at $165
per year instead of $150.
(2) Alton forthe services of Rev. Q. N. Huneycutt at $235 per
annum instead of $200.
(4) Walkersville for the services of Rev. Q. N. Huneycutt at $450
instead of $400 per year.
4. That the Presbytery commend those churches for their in-
creasing liberality and congratulate them upon their evidence of
growth and development.
Respectfully submitted,
J. F. LIGON.
N. C. WHITE.
W. T. SMITH.
WM. P. CHEDESTER.
The report on Christian Education and Ministerial Relief
was submitted by Rev. J. W. Grier and adopted :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
MINISTERIAL RELIEF
We recommend :
1. That in accordance with his request, that candidate J. Lee
Williamson be transferred to Wilmington Presbytery.
2. That Presbytery request the following appropriations of
the Assembly's Committee of Christian Education and Ministerial
Relief :
Mrs. Emma Tate Hardin $600.00
Rev. L. H. Query , *6oo.oo
Rev. A. H. Temple 300.00
Mrs, Mary Louis Arrowood 300.00
Mrs. Allie W. Cochran 600.00
Mrs. Rhoda Jamison Daniels Maximum
J. W. GRIER, Chairman.
Rev. S. A. Ewart resigned as Chairman of the Commit-
tee on Sessional Records and his resignation was accepted.
Rev. R. S. Burwell resigned as Chairman of the Orphans*
Home and his resignation was accepted.
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Rev. A. H. Atkins submitted the completed report on
Leave of Absence and the report v^as adopted. See Ap-
pendix.
The call for the pastoral services of Rev. I. E. Wallace by
Pegram Street Church having been found in order, the call
v^as placed in his hands. He accepted the call and the fol-
lov^ing commission vv^as appointed to install him.
Commission to install Rev. I. E. Wallace pastor of Pegram Street
Church : Rev. A. A. Walker to preside and propound the questions;
Dr. W. H. Frazer to preach the sermon ; Rev. J. M. Walker to
charge the pastor;' Elder W. E. Price to charge the people. Time,
8 p. m. May 2, 1926.
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114TH STATED OR FALL MEETING
Banks Church was selected as the place for the fall meet-
ing of Presbytery; time to be decided at an adjourned meet-
ing.
The following committee on Arrangements was chosen
consisting of Rev. W. S. Hamiter, ruling elder O. W. Potts
and the Stated Clerk .
The Moderator appointed Rev. A. H. Atkins, D.D., to
preach the Presbyterial sermon at the fall meeting, subject,
"Repentance," Acts 2 :38.
The report of the Nominating Committee was submitted
by the Stated Clerk and the nominations adopted as a whole.
See revised list on Covers.
A memorial to Rev. H. M. Pressly was read by Rev. J.
W. Stork and was adopted by a rising vote :
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MEMORIAL OF REV. H. M. PRESSLY
Harvey Mason Pressly was born in Raldoph County, Illinois,
September 19, 1845. His mother was Nancy Huey, of Kentucky,
whose family went originally from the Carolinas.
He was the eldest son of a large family.
He attended public school, and later a private school, and also
taught a few terms of rural school, before going to college. His
collegiate course was interrupted by the death of his father, when
he had to assume home responsibilities. However, he was able after
a while to continue his course, and graduated from Monmouth Col-
lege, at Monmouth, Illinois, in the class of 1876. (He had made his
plans to attend the semi-centennial reunion of his class in June.)
Just when he first felt the call to enter the ministry we do not
know, but he has said that for a time he resisted the call, and tried
to enter some other line of work; but could not do so.
During this period of indecision, and before he finished college,
he had experience in various kinds of work. He taught school, both
private and public, worked on a neighbor's farm, "followed the har-
vest" northward through Illinois and Iowa for at least one season,
worked with a carpenter in Iowa, was with a railroad construction
gang for a while, was a traveling salesman in Southern Illinois,
Kentucky, and Missouri, and, of course, worked on his father's
farm. This experience gave him a wonderful understanding of
human nature, which was of great value to him in the ministry.
After graduating from college, he taught in high school for a
year, and then attended the United Presbyterian Seminary at Xenia,
Ohio.
He was licensed to preach April 23, 1877, by the U. P. Presbytery
of Southern Illinois, at a meeting held in St. Louis, and supplied a
church in St. Louis during the following summer. He was or-
dained by the same Presbytery at Oakdale, Illinois, August 6, 1878.
His family originally belonged tothe A. R. P. Church, but when
he was a small boy the church to which they belonged united with
the United Presbyterian Church, in which he grew up and received
his education. In later years, when he went to Minnesota, there be-
ing no church in the section where he wished to work, he went into
the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., and worked in it. On
coming to North Carolina, he cast in his lot with the Presbyterian
Church in^ the U. S. He often said, "I have been four kinds of a
Presbyterian, but have never changed either my name or my reli-
gion."
In speaking of his work he said, "My work has been 'Home
Missions.' I planned to be an evangelist, but the Lord shut me out
of that field, so I have tried to be a 'constructive evangelist,' — i. e.,
begin in a neglected field or run-down church, and work it up for
three or four years, then leave it and repeat the process elsewhere.
I have served twenty churches in 10 states. The Lord blessed me
with health and strength, and I have enjoyed His work as He has
used me to tell the Old, Old Story to some who have never heard,
and to help others into greater light and more abundant life through
the Gospel.
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"My varied experiences have confirmed my faith in God and
His Word and convinced me more and more that 'Jesus only' can
supply the needs of lost and longing humanity."
Mr. Pressly was married August 29, 1878, to Katharine Hood,
who was born at Chester, South Carolina, but whose family had
moved to Illinois and lived in another settlement of South Carolina
people, not many miles from the Pressly home. She was never
strong, but was devoted to her family and to her church work; and
her unobtrusive efforts, especially among the women and young peo-
ple of the churches he served, were a wonderful help. Mrs. Pressly
died in 1919. Mr. Pressly had yet several years of service. These
he completed, and on Sunday morning, March 19, 1926, he laid down
his work well done, and went home to her and to his Lord. They
leave to their one child. Miss Mary P. Pressly, of Charlotte, the
priceless heritage of a godly parentage.
How little this sketch has told, and yet how much; at least
enough to indicate that there was a life well lived for his Lord. Mr.
Pressly was a pioneer, a frontiersman, in the days when the great
West was being won ; and his life was devoted to its winning for
Christ. Surely there were times when that life was threatened.
That did not deter him. There were long days of driving alone, to
lie down under the quiet stars, while the wolves howled in the
shadows yonder. There were evenings when the missionary would
come home with his black horse white with his his own frozen
breath. Yes, these were hard days. But oh, the joy of them too!
And the patriarch's eyes would fire as he would tell us of this Irish
boy of his, or that German boy, now standing in his place in the
great settled West telling the unsearchable riches of grace in Christ
Jesus.
How different such scenes from, those of more recent years.
Less strenuous the later years, but busy always. He loved to see
things grow. And he made them grow, whether flowers or garden,
or churches or souls. When a few months ago he reached his
eightieth birthday, and letters came flooding in from all over the
land, he cherished most those that said, "You did me good," "You
brought me to Christ." After his going one friend was saying. Oh,
how many of us shall remember those little lemon drops he always
carried." Another said, "The little children would run out to meet
him on the street." A younger minister said, "I shall miss my
counselor and friend." Indeed he was the friend of everyone. No
wonder every one called him "Brother Pressly."
We loved the man. We loved his genial manner. We loved the
merry twinkle in his eye. We loved the ready wit that often struck
but never hurt. We loved the Lord Whom we saw in him. And
looking back over a long and busy life we can say with all sin-
cerity,
FOUR SCORE YEARS WELL LIVED, AND THEIR AFTER-
GLOW REMAINS A BENEDICTION.
W. B. McILWAINE, JR.
G. C. HUNTINGTON.
A. R. SHAW, Committee.
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An adjourned meeting was fixed for May 10th at 2:00
p. m., in the First Church, of Charlotte.
The Standing Committee on Home Missions reported,
and the report was adopted as follows :
Your Committee on Home Missions respectfully report that we
have reviewed the report of your Executive Committee and recom-
mend :
1. That the report be approved and the committee cordially
commended for their faithful and efficient service.
2. That Presbytery especially appreciates the work of the
committee in keeping their expenses in the bounds of their re-
ceipts.
3. That we urge our churches to contribute their full quotas to
this most worthy cause.
4. That the committee be reelected.
5. That the recommendations be adopted. See Appendix.
T. F. HUNEYCUTT, Chairman.
The report on Synod's Minutes was read by Rev. Theo.
F. Huneycutt and approved.
We the Committee on Minutes of Synod beg to report that we
have examined the Minutes of the 1925 Session, and find nothing of
interest to emphasize.
THEO. F. HUNEYCUTT, Chairman.
S. A. EWART.
J. W. PHARR.
The report of the Trustees of Presbytery was docketed
for consideration at the adjourned meeting in May.
The resolution of thanks to Sugaw Creek Church for its
hospitality was received and approved :
As the members of Mecklenburg Presbytery sincerely appreciate
the many kindnesses extended them by the people of Sugaw Creek
Church, be it resolved:
1. That the Presbytery does hereby express its heartfelt
thanks to the pastor and people of this church, who have made our
sojourns here so pleasant.
2. That this paper be read from the pulpit of this church on
next Sunday morning.
The minutes were read and approved and Presbytery ad-
journed withthe singing of a hymn and prayer.
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CALLED MEETING
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in called session in Char-
lotte First Church, Monday, January 18, 1926 at 2:00 p. m.
Rev. H. M. Pressly moderated the meeting and Rev. H. E.
Gurney made opening prayer.
The following were present : H. M. Pressly, J. G. Garth,
A. S. Johnson, H. E. Gurney, R. P. Walker, S. B. McLean,
W. B. S. Chandler, A. A. Walker, S. A. Ewart, L. W. Brown,
J. M. Walker, J. A. McQueen and C. C. Anderson.
Churches : Rockingham — J. L. Hawley.
The following call was found in order :
Charlotte, N. C, January 8, 1925.
Constitutional requirements having been met, Presbytery of
Mecklenburg is called to meet in Charlotte First Church, Monday,
January 18, 1926, 2 p. m. to take action on the following matters :
First, the request of Rev. J. A. McQueen to dissolve the pas-
toral relations between himself and the Rockingham Presbyterian
Church.
Second, consideration of any matters connected with the above
dissolution.
C E. WHITE, Moderator*
C. C ANDERSON, Stated Clerk.
Rev. J. A. McQueen offered his resignation as pastor of
Rockingham Church and asked that the pastoral relations be
dissolved. The elder of the Rockingham church, J. L.
Hawley, reported that the church concurred in the request.
The pastoral relations between Rockingham Church and
Rev. J. A. McQueen were dissolved to take effect at once.
Rev. J. A. McQueen was given permission to labor with-
out bounds of the Presbytery till spring meeting.
Rev. A. A. Walker was appointed as Moderator of the
Rockingham session.
Minutes were read and approved.
Rev. W. B. S. Chandler made closing prayer.
H. M. PRESSLY, Moderator.
Attest :
C. C. Anderson, Stated Clerk.
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ADJOURNED MEETING
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in adjourned session at the
Charlotte First Church, Monday, February 1, 1926, at 2 p. m.
and was called to order by Rev. William Black, D.D., last
Moderator present and was constituted with prayer by Rev.
S. B. McLean.
The following were found present :
Ministers : W. H. Frazer, J. W. Stork, R. W. Culbertson,
C. C. Anderson, W. R. Coppedge, Q. N. Honeycutt, Wm.
Black, S. B. McLean, J. W. Grier, A. A. Walker, C G. Long,
A. S. Johnston, J. M. Walker, H. E. Gurney, L. W. Brown,
H. M. Pressly, W. C Underwood, G. C. Huntington, J. G.
Garth, W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., R. P. Walker, A. R. Shaw,
B. B. Shankel, L. H. Query, W. S. Hamiter, R. J. Mcllwain,
I. E. Wallace, W. B. S. Chandler, J. F. Ligon.
Elders: Dr. C M. Lentz, Albemarle First; F. S. Neal,
Sugaw Creek ; W. C. Barnett, Pineville.
Rev. W. R. Coppedge offered his resignation as pastor of
Mark's Creek Church, the church having concurred by writ-
ten resolution which was approved. The pastoral relation
was dissolved and after expressions of appreciation con-
cerning Brother Coppedge, the Presbytery was led in prayer
thanking God for his long and useful ministry.
Two resolutions from the Rockingham Church were in-
troduced heartily commending Rev. J. A. McQueen which
the representative of the church failed to bring with him at
the called meeting. The resolutions were received as in-
formation.
The rules were suspended and it was ordered that when
Presbytery adjourn it should adjourn to meet Monday,
March 1st, at 2 p. m., at the Charlotte First Church.
Candidate Dwight M. Chalmers at his own request was
granted a letter of transfer to Orange Presbytery.
The commission to install Rev. Lynn R. Walker, D.D., at
Hamlet reported that duty performed November 15, 1925.
The commission to organize a church at Paradise School
reported the church organized September 27, 1925, with R.
J. Stutz and Marshall Rhine, elders, and Geo. Mills and J. D.
McLean, deacons. The church was named McLean Memo-
rial.
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The commission to organize a church at Gibson Mill
School reported the church organized September 27, 1925
with J. C. Morgan and J. C. Watson elders, and J. E. Lovin,
A. C. Gibson and James McDuffie, deacons. The church was
named Rourk Chapel.
Rev. W. M. Hunter of Concord Presbytery was intro-
duced, invited to sit as a visiting brother and extended the
privileges of the floor.
The minutes were read and approved. Rev. A. R. Shaw
led the closing prayer.
WM. BLACK, Moderator.
J. W. STORK, Permanent Clerk.
Attest : C. C. ANDERSON, Stated Clerk.
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ADJOURNED MEETING
Charlotte, N. C, March 1, 1926.
Pursuant to adjournment the Presbytery of Mecklen-
burg met in Charlotte First Church, Monday, March 1, 1926,
at 2 p. m. Rev. H. E. Gurney, D.D., last Moderator present
presided. Presbytery was constituted with prayer by Rev.
W. S. Hamiter.
The following were present :
Ministers : C. C. Anderson, G. C. Huntington, S. A.
Ewart, W. S. Hamiter, J. W. Stork, W. R. Coppedge, A. A.
Walker, S. B. McLean, W. B. S. Chandler, R. P. Walker,
A. R. Shaw, S. B. Lyerly, H. E. Gurney, J. R.
Bridges, C. G. Long, L. W. Brown, W. C. Underwood, J. W.
Grier, J. M. Walker, C. H. Little, L E. Wallace, R. W. Cul-
bertson, W. H. Frazer, J. G. Garth, B. B. Shankel, Q. N.
Honeycutt, T. F. Honeycutt.
Elders: O. W. Potts, Banks; J. A. Mclntyre, Ellerbe ;
Dr. C. M. Lentz, Albermarle ; W. E. Price, Caldwell Memo-
rial ; M. L. Campbell, West Avenue; C. B. Cross, Robinson;
W. R. Long, Sugaw Creek ; R. H. Lafferty, Charlotte
Second.
Rev. C. C. Anderson offered his resignation as pastor of
West Avenue Church and asked for the dissolution of pas-
toral relations. The church concurred through its repre-
sentative and introduced resolutions of appreciation.
The Presbytery by a rising vote expressed its apprecia-
tion of Brother Anderson's faithful work at West Avenue
and as Stated Clerk.
The pastoral relation was dissolved to take effect April
1, 1926, and at his request Mr. Anderson was granted per-
mission to labor outside the bounds of Presbytery until the
fall meeting.
The resignation of Rev. C. C. Anderson as Stated Clerk
and Treasurer was accepted, effective April 1, 1926.
Ruling Elder W. E. Price, Treasurer of Presbytery was
directed to receive and hold the records and funds of the
Presbytery until the spring meeting.
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Rev. W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., was elected chairman of Per-
manent Committee on Men's and Women's Societies.
The call ofthe Albemarle First Church for the pastoral
services of Rev. C. G. Long at $2,500 and the manse v^as
read, found in order and placed in Mr. Long's hands. Mr.
Long accepted the call.
The following report was adopted :
As Treasurer of your Presbyterial Tax Fund I submit the fol-
lowing report :
Received from W. E. Price, Treasurer $ 81.47
Received from Churches 5»359-8i
15,441.28
Disbursed as per checks enclosed $5,071.88
Balance in Bank $ 36940
According to Mr. Jamison, your auditor, my books are correct.
C. C. ANDERSON, Treasurer.
Rev. W. H. Johnston, of Pee Dee Presbytery and Licien-
tiate J. C. McGehee of Congaree Presbytery were intro-
duced to Presbytery. Mr. McGehee was received as a
licentiate from Congaree Presbytery.
Rev. W. H. Johnston presented letter of dismission from
Pee Dee Presbytery and after the usual examination which
was sustained as satisfactory was enrolled as a member of
the Presbyterial after he had signed the obligation.
Calls from churches, Robinson at $750 a year and Allen at
$100 a year for Licentiate J. C. McGehee were read and
found in order and placed in his hands.
Mr. McGehee signified acceptance of the calls and Pres-
bytery examined him with a view to ordination. After be-
ing satisfied with the examinations and the certificates
from institutions of learning a commission was appointed to
hear his sermon and ordain and install him over Robinson
and Allen Churches on April 4, 1926. The following were
named a commission to ordain and install Mr. McGehee,
Revs. A. A. Walker, W. T. Smith, T. F. Honeycutt and Elder
W. E. Price ; Rev. S. B. McLean and Elder R. H. LaiTerty,
alternates.
The following were appointed to install Rev. C. G. Long
as pastor over Albermarle First Church on March 28, 1926 :
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Revs. W. H. Frazer, J. M. Walker, J. W. Stork and Elder
Colson, of Norwood.
Calls from EUerbe at $350.00 a year and manse, Mt. Car-
mel at $300.00 a year and Norman at $200.00 a year for the
pastoral services of Rev. W. H. Johnston were found in or-
der and placed in Mr. Johnston's hands. He accepted calls
but desired to wait till spring meeting of Presbytery to ar-
range for installation.
The reading of the minutes were deferred till stated
spring meeting. Rev. W. H. Frazer made closing prayer.
H. E. GURNEY, Moderator.
J. W. STORK, Permanent Clerk.
Attest : C. C. ANDERSON, Stated Clerk.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 37
ADJOURNED MEETING
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in adjourned session on
Monday, May 10, at 2 p. m., in the First Church, Charlotte,
N. C, and was opened with prayer by Rev. W. H. Johnston.
Rev. Q. N. Huneycutt, Th.D., the Moderator presided. Rev.
S. B. McLean was appointed Temporay Clerk.
The following were present :
Ministers: Q. N. Huneycutt, Moderator; J. G. Garth,
Stated Clerk; S. B. McLean, T. F. Huneycutt, G. F. Bell,
H. H. Cassidy, L. W. Brown, C. H. Little, G. C. Huntington,
C. E. White, A. A. Walker, S. A. Ewart, J. R. Bridges, J. W.
Grier, W. H. Johnston, W. W. Moore, R. J. Mcllwain, M. E.
Peabody, C. C. Anderson, B. B. Shankel, Ruling Elders W.
H. Belk (Monroe), W. E. Price (Caldwell Memorial) J. W.
Pharr (Second Church, Charlotte), J. A. Mclntyre (Eller-
be), W. J. Knox (Bethel), W. A. Jamison (West Avenue),
J. N. Lee (Philadelphia), R. A. Robinson (Seversville), Rev.
R. C. Clontz, of Wilmington Presbytery and Rev. J. M.
Elder of Roanoke Presbytery were invited to sit as visiting
brethren.
Mr. James C. Wool, a candidate for the ministry under
our care, in Union Seminary, was granted a letter of trans-
fer to Lexington Presbytery.
The commission appointed to install Rev. L E. Wallace
pastor of Pegram Street Church reported as follows :
Your commission appointed to install Rev. I. E. Wallace pastor
of Pegram Street Church met at 8 p. m., Sunday, May 2nd, at' the
church, all the members of the commission being present as follows :
Revs. W. H. Frazer, D.D., J. M. Walker, and A. A. Walker and
ruling elder, W. E. Price. Rev. A. A. Walker presided as chairman
of the commission. After a service of song, conducted by") the pas-
tor-elect, and a prayer. Dr. Frazer preached the sermon. Rev. A.
A. Walker propounded the constitutional questions, and Mr. Wal-
lace was declared pastor of the church. Rev. J. M. Walker then
delivered a charge to the pastor and ruling elder W. E. Price de-
livered a charge to the congregation. After prayer, the services
were concluded by the benediction, pronounced by the new pastor.
Respectfully submitted,
A. A. WALKERi
The time for the Fall Meeting of Presbytery at Banks
Church was fixed at 10 a. m., October 26, 1926, or two weeks
after Synod which meets at Statesville, October 12, 1926.
38 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
The Stated Clerk and Treasurer announced that he had
sent $1,218.40 to the Stated Clerk of the Assembly, Rev. J.
D. Leslie, D.D., as the dues of Mecklenburg Presbytery for
this General Assembly, which left a balance in the treasury
of $1,337.10.
A committee was appointed to investigate the advisabil-
ity of binding- and preserving as historical records the col-
lection of the Minutes of Presbytery. The Stated Clerk,
Rev. J. G. Garth, chairman, Rev, A. A. Walker and Ruling
Elder W. E. Price were appointed on this committee.
Rev. G. F. Bell, D.D., chairman of the Committee of Reli-
gious Education announced that at the request of his com-
mittee two young ladies attending the Assembly's Training
School at Richmond, Va., had been secured to foster and
conduct Vacation Bible School in the bounds of Presbytery
during a part of this summer, part of whose expenses would
be borne by the Assembly's Committee of Religious Educa-
tion. Dr. Bell requested that Presbytery underwrite $200 of
the expense of the school from the Presbyterial Tax Fund,
it being understood that Presbytery's Home Mission Com-
mittee had agreed to subscribe the same amount. The re-
quest was granted, provided that an effort be made to secure
a collection for the same purpose from the churches receiv-
ing the benefits of the schools.
The report of the Trustees of Presbytery was deferred
to the next adjourned meeting, particularly with reference
to the transfer of the property of Stanley Hall School.
The Standing Rules of Presbytery were amended to pro-
vide that at the opening service of each stated meeting of
Presbytery a communion service should be conducted.
After the approval of the minutes. Presbytery adjourned
to meet in First Church, Charlotte, Monday, July 5, 1926, at
2 p. m.
Q. N. HUNEYCUTT, Moderator.
S. B. McLEAN, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 39
APPENDIX
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON LEAVE OF ABSENCE
The following members of Presbytery were excused after a
partial attendance on the sessions of Presbytery : M. E. Trotter,
E. B. McWhirter, W. W. Moore, R. W. McConnell (alternate C L.
Abernathy seated for Sugaw Creek), W. T. Smith, J. M. Morrow,
S. B. Lyerly, J. W. Pharr, M. W. Woodside, W. B. Hutchinson, W.
C Vile, W. S. Alexander, R. J. Mcllwaine, G. W. Stinson, A. S.
Johnson, R. S. Burwell, B. B. Shankel, S. B. McLean, J. H. Smith,
M. E. Sentelle, A. R. Shaw, D. S. Monteith, A. S. Anderson, J. B.
Coffee, C. W. Somerville.
SUMMARY OF STATISTICAL REPORT OF MECKLENBURG
PRESBYTERY
Yr. Ending Yr. Ending
Mar. 31, 1925 Mar. 31, 1926
Churches 92 92
Elders 460 455
Deacons 481 481
Added on examination 850 694
Added on certificate 896 789
Resident communicants 13,561 13,048
Non-resident communicants 1,669 1,614
Whole number of communicants 15,230 15,755
Baptisms, adults 301 255
Baptisms, infants 291 302
Total S. S. enrollment 13,281 13,685
Benevolences
Quota
Foreign Missions $ 56,831 $ 64,048 $ 61,296
Assembly's Home Missions 27,414 20,947 20,970
Synod's Home Missions 12,800 10,844 13,263
Presbytery's Home Missions 19,448 18,153 23,952
Congregational Home Missions. __. 7,779 6,590
Christian Ed. & Min. Relief 12,800 9,684 11,274
S. S. Extension & Pub. 3,393 3,244 3,657
Educational Institutions 16,919 21,507 25,082
Bible Cause 1,017 821 984
Orphans' Home 12,800 23,992 25,561
Assembly's Training School 10,17
Total Benevolences $169,759 $181,011 $192,619
Current Expenses $196,734 $158,680
Pastor's Salary 82,422 84,215
Miscellaneous 28,081 27,152
Total $306,837 $280,047
Grand Total $487,848 $462,666
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REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF HOME MISSIONS
Your Executive Committee of Home Missions would respectfuUj
submit the following report:
The year just closed has been a good year from the Home Mission
standpoint. The men on the field have been doing faithful work. While
there has been not a little changing in the workers, still the churches have
been able to secure new men without any long and hurtful delay. The
new men coming into the Presbytery have shown a peculiar fitness for the
work to which they have been called. With the beginning of the new
Church year arrangements have been made whereby every church under
the care of the Home Mission Committee will be supplied. While we
rejoice in that situation it is well to remind the Presbytery that a situation
like that calls for more money than we had contemplated when we were
submitting our apportionments.
Our Superintendent has done faithful and efficient work during the
year. In the matter of re-grouping of churches he has enabled the Com-
mittee to do more work and better work at less expense to the Committee.
He has maintained a careful oversight of the work during the whole year,
and has been of invaluable help to the Committee in directing the work
committed to its care.
Two new churches have been organized during the year, Rourks
Chapel and McLean Memorial. These have been mission points connected
with the Ellerbe group. We have a recommendation touching their
grouping.
We have a total of 43 churches now under the care of the Home
Mission Committee, and 11 mission points. The statistical reports show
that there have been received by these churches this year on profession
of faith, 242, and by letter, 117, making a total of 359 from this source.
The handsome new church at Ellerbe has been completed during the
year. A beautiful church is being erected at Norman and is nearing
completion at this time. It will not cost when complete much over $5,000,
if any; but this is due to the fact that some of the men in the church have
literally been giving their time to it, and have done the large part of the
work free. If let out to contract it would more than likely have cost
them double that amount. The Candor new church is now complete and
they are to hold their first service in it April 25th. It is one of the most
beautiful, if not the most beautiful church in the Home Mission field.
It represents a cost of $16,000. The church is carrying a debt of $8,000
on it. The church at Troy is halted for lack of funds. The committee
promised, conditionally upon having the money in hand, that we would
give them during the past year $2,000. This promise we are carrying
over into the new year as the money was not available last year. These
people are in sore need of help. Their present church building, besides
being badly located, is in the last stages of decay, and is not worth
repairing. Their new church will be ideally located and when complete
should be a credit to the town and the Presbytery.
The Pegram Street Church now being built on the Plaza will be
complete this summer. It is in a growing section of the city and gives
promise under its able and energetic leader to be one of the stronger
churches in the city in the near future. They are looking to the churches
of Charlotte to help them complete their building program.
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Wilmore has secured a lot in a more favorable section of the city
for their new church building. Biscoe is planning to build a new church
this year to cost about $10,000. The church at Star is in need of a build-
ing of their own in which to worship.
The manse at Robinson will be completed just as soon as the money
promised them by Synod is available. A new manse at Roberdel has
been bought and is now occupied by the preacher and his family on that
group. It is new and modern, costing about $2,300. The church at Marsh-
ville is planning to build a new manse. The church does not now own a
manse. The one they are renting is by no means suitable for the work.
It is altogether too small. This is one of the real and pressing needs of
the work. The Oakboro group sold their old manse last year, it being
not at all adaptable for its use. They are now planning either to buy or
build a new manse to cost about $2,000 or $2,500. When this is done their
pastor. Rev. T. F. Huneycutt, who now lives some distance away in his
own house, will move into it.
The Committee is carefully investigating each one of these building
projects, and is aiding them as far as the means in hand will justify.
The real pity of the whole thing is that we have to turn deaf ears to so
many of the appeals that come for needed help simply because the churches
do not pay up in full their apportionment. The funds contributed are
barely sufficient to pay the men on the field, leaving little or nothing for
the building program.
Total receipts from the churches for the past year amounted to
$18,731.59, or $1,469.60 less than the same churches contributed last
year to this cause. Total receipts from all sources, including balance of
last year, amounted to $21,667.43. Total expenditures for the year were
$19,553.85, or $648.39 more than the total receipts from all sources during
the year, this leaving a balance on hand at the beginning of this year of
$2,113.58, with all workers paid in full, and no outstanding obligations.
But we hasten to say that this balance has already been practically
obliterated. Of this amount $1,500 has been paid to the Baden Church,
cancelling our obligation to them, and with this gift to them the church
at once becomes self-supporting and off the hands of the Home Mission
Committee. Then $200 has been paid the Norwood Church, the final
payment of our promise to them on their new church. This leaves the
Committee but little to begin the new year on, and as collections coming
in in April are usually small, the Committee will be forced to begin
borrowing from the banks right away to pay the men on the field. This
would not have been necessary had we received this year as much as we
received last year and had a right to expect.
For the information of the Presbytery, and especially for the younger
men coming into the Presbytery, we restate in part the policies of your
Committee, which policies have already been approved by the Presbytery :
1. It is the policy of the Committee to reduce all appropriations to
the fields each year 10 per cent. This is done not that the men on the
field may receive less salary, but that the churches served shall make up
this difference to their pastors ; and that this may serve as a stimulus to
the churches to become self-supporting, and at the same time it releases
funds to be used in developing other fields.
42 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
This is no iron-clad rule and circumstances in a given field may lead
the Committee to hold in abeyance this action for a time.
2. The Committee expects every pastor engaged in Home Mission
work to live on the field he serves.
3. The Committee will expect all applications for aid to build
churches or manses to be made in writing. Such applications must show
cost of building contemplated and the amount of money raised for the
same. The Committee must formally pass on all applications before they
can be presented by any one.
4. Churches receiving aid from the Home Mission Committee are
expected to pay in full their apportionment to Presbytery's Home
Missions.
Recommendations
We offer the following recommendations :
1. That Rev. A. A. Walker be re-elected Superintendent of Home
Missions.
2. That Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine be re-elected Evangelist of Union and
Anson Counties.
3. That Rourks Chapel and McLean Memorial be grouped with
Ellerbe and Mt, Carmel and Newman as these were former mission
points in this group.
4. That Marston, formerly served by the pastor of the Rockingham
Church, be added to the Ellerbe group.
5. That Morgan Memorial be grouped with Oakboro, Locust, and
Stanfield.
6. That Marks Creek be grouped with Roberdel, Brainard, and
Cameronian.
7. That Presbytery grant the following supplies : Marks Creek,
W. T. Smith; Rourks Chapel, McLean Memorial, and Marston, W. H.
Johnston, and J. A. Mclntyre, layman assistant ; Oakboro, Locust, Stan-
field, and Morgan Memorial, T. F. Huneycutt ; Pageland, Beulah, and
Salem, W. P. Chedester ; Troy, Wadeville, and Star, J. Hector Smith;
Midland, A. H. Atkins ; North Charlotte, W. C. Underwood.
8. That the Presbytery instruct the Home Mission Committee in the
future to secure in writing the endorsement of the churches concerned
before presenting the names of supplies for Presbytery's approval. The
purpose of the recommendation is two-fold : one, to create closer and
stronger ties between the supply and the churches served, causing the
churches to feel more responsibility for their supply, and the other, per
chance, to hasten on the formation of pastoral relationship instead of the
anomylous condition of stated supply existing in so many churches at
present.
9. That Presbytery instruct the Committee to decline to aid churches
that are behind with their former pastor's salary to secure either a supply
or pastor until the back salary has been paid. In making this recommenda-
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 43
tion the Committee hopes thereby to correct, if possible, the all too com-
mon practice in some of our Home Mission Churches of getting behind
with their pastor's salary, and then making it so unpleasant for him that
he has to leave. Your Committee is of the opinion that prompt payment
of their salaries by the churches served to the men on the field would do
as much, if not more, than anything else to make their ministry a success.
That if the officers of the church would make a determined effort at this
point they would render the greatest service possible to their pastor and
churches, and we again call upon Presbytery to lay this important matter
before them.
10. That we express our appreciation of the loyal and enthusiastic
support we have received from many pastors, churches, church organiza-
tions and individuals during the year.
11. That in view of the pressing needs of the work, and the great
importance of Presbytery's Home Missions as the foundation work in
building up the Kingdom here at home, and in view of the large returns
from funds invested in this work, each church be urged to pay in full its
quota to this cause, namely, 15 per cent of the total benevolent budget.
12. That Dr. W. R. Coppedge be given evangelistic powers in Rich-
mond County in reference to any mission points he may be able to serve.
13. That Presbytery approve the following appropriations for the
year 1926-27.
Appropriations
Superintendent's Salary $ 3,000.00
Robinson and Allen 675.00
Indian Trail and Siler 400.00
Marshville 700.00
Troy, Wadeville and Star 600.00
Wilmore 800.00
Ellerbe, Mt. Carmel, and Norman 600.00
Roberdel, Brainerd, Cameronian, and Marks Creek 400.00
Oakboro, Locust, Stanfield, and Morgan Memorial 450.00
Pageland, Beulah, and Salem 500.00
Walkersville, Rehoboth, Bethany, and Altan 400.00
Candor, Biscoe, and Macedonia 600.00
North Charlotte (for six months) 450.00
Unionville, Bethlehem, and Midland 1,000.00
Richmond County Group (Marston, McLean Mem., and Rourks) 1,200.00
Incidental Expenses 500.00
Traveling Expenses Supt. and part of house rent 1,000.00
Pegram Street (for six months) 450.00
Ellerbe (promised on building) 500.00
Candor Heating Plant (promised) 400.00
Badin Building (promised) 1,500.00
Note T. M. Hartsell, Locust 500.00
Troy Church 2,000.00
Contingent Fund for New Work 2,000.00
$20,625.00
(Signed) THE COMMITTEE.
J. M. WALKER, Chairman.
44 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
REPORT OF W. E. PRICE, TREASURER OF MECKLENBURG
PRESBYTERY HOME MISSION COMMITTEE FOR THE
YEAR ENDING MARCH 31, 1926
Receipts
Balance from Report March 31, 1925 $ 2,761.97
Received from Churches . 18,731.59
Dividends Commercial National Bank 24.00
Church and Manse Erection i 149.87
$21,667.43
Disbursements
Paid to Workers to April 1, 1926 $15,982.44
Paid Bank Cornelius Note 1,500.00
Interest 50.83
Printing 25.95
Insurance 26.74
Postage 40.65
Automobile 818.25
Norwood Church 190.00
Roberdel Manse 300.00
Pegram Street Church Building 200.00
Ellerbe Church (Interest on Note) 110.00
Error in Balance 3-31-25 308.99
Balance in Bank 2,113.58
$21,667.43
Liabilities
None
Assets
Note Statesville Avenue $ 650.00
2 Shares Stock Commercial National Bank 450.00
Dodge Touring Car , 500.00
ATTEST:
Respectfully submitted,
W. E. PRICE, Treasurer.
We have carefully audited the books of W. E. Price, Treasurer of
Home Mission Committee, and find same correct as per above statement.
J. F. JAMISON,
J. O. THOMAS,
Auditors.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 45
STATEMENT OF CHURCHES OF MECKLENBURG
PRESBYTERY FOR HOME MISSIONS
APPROPRIATION
Albemarle $ 99.00 $
Allen 17.00
Altan 25.00
Amity 95.00
Badin 80.00
Banks 83.00
Bethany 25.00
Bethel 87.00
Bethlehem 49.00
Beulah 26.00
Biscoe 28.00
Brainard 26.00
Caldwell Memorial 1,235.00
Camden 9.00
Cameronian 40.00
Candor 39.00
Carmel 77.00
Central Steele Creek 110.00
Charlotte First 7,458.00
Charlotte Second , 7,024.00
Cooks Memorial 112.00
CorneHus 45.00
Ellerbe 35.00
Hamlet 105.00
Hopewell 226.00
Huntersville 342.00
Indian Trail 20.00
Lee Park 24.00
Lilesville 7.00
Locust 24.00
Macedonia 48.00
Mallard Creek 156.00
Marks Creek 45.00
Marshville 45.00
Marston 9.00
Matthews 64.00
Midland 15.00
Monroe 492.00
Morgan's Memorial 3.00
Morven 72.00
McGee 87.00
McLean Memorial
Mt. Carmel 25.00
Mt. Gilead 76.00
Mulberry 150.00
Newells 76.00
Norman 18.00
North Charlotte 47.00
Norwood 64.00
Oakboro 11.00
PAID
UNPAID
; 150.10
17.00
30.00
49.25
45.75
80.00
54.00
29.00
25.00
74.65
12.35
14.75
34.25
15.00
11.00
5.70
22.30
26.00
1,530.00
9.00
40.00
6.25
32.75
49.17
27.83
110.00
5,184.61
2,273.39
4,280.92
2,744.08
81.30
30.70
45.00
38.00
80.00
25.00
113.66
112.34
72.25
319.75
5.00
15.00
5.40
19.00
7.00
3.65
20.35
37.30
10.70
82.00
74.00
45.00
45.00
9.00
12.50
51.50
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538.00
4.70
68.00
4.00
85.50
1.50
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42.00
45.00
31.00
150.00
84.90
13.35
4.65
100.70
67.90
11.00
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APPROPRIATION PAID UNPAID
Pageland 14.00 14.00
Palestine 6.00 6.00
Paw Creek 272.00 247.21 24.79
Peachland 17.00 5.25 11.75
Pee Dee 39.00 5.17 33.83
Pegram Street 51.00 51.00
Philadelphia 294.00 209.82 84.18
Pineville 122.00 67.00 55.00
Pleasant Hill 69.00 45.66 23.34
Polkton 29.00 20.00 9.00
Porter 3.00- 3.00
Providence 125.00 45.71 79.29
Ramah , 104.00 15.00 89.00
Rehoboth 27.00 5.00 22.00
Robinson 62.00 66.00
Roberdell 29.00 29.00
Rockingham 117.00 33.84 83.16
Star 4.40
Salem 24.00 5.00 19.00
Seversville 110.00 63.00 47.00
Sharon 298.00 229.97 68.03
Siler 37.00 37.00
Six-Mile Creek 37.00 37.00
Stanfield 3.00 3.00
Steele Creek 1,154.00 885.00 269.00
St. Paul 251.00 157.00 94.00
Sugaw Creek 397.00 335.50 61.50
Tenth Avenue 829.00 570.00 259.00
Thomasboro 102.00 99.00 3.00
Troy 24.00 22.90 1.10
Turners 10.00 2.00 8.00
Unionville 20.00 20.00
Wadesboro 178.00 40.00 138.00
Wadeville 20.00 13.95 6.05
Walkerville 43.00 20.00 23.00
Waxhaw 186.00 44.42 141.58
West Avenue 207.00 154.00 53.00
Westminster 822.00 819.00 3.00
Williams Memorial 136.00 136.00
Wilmore 49.00 49.00
Respectfully submitted by
W. E. PRICE, Treasurer.
MEN'S WORK
Eleven Churches of the 92 reported organizations.
Total Male Membership over 18 years of age in Churches report-
ing organizations 1,850
Enrollment in "Men of the Church" Organization 757
Enrollment in other Men's Organizations 583
Amount
Over and Above Gifts to Church Causes $14,064
Expense of Men's Organizations for own purposes 5,217
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47
Are organizations under control of Session? Yes.
Are they organized along line of Assembly's Plan and Program?
Yes— 8. N(y-3.
Do they study Activities and Needs of Causes of the Church? Yes.
Yes.
Are their programs — Spiritual? Yes. Social? Yes. Educational?
Yes.
What per cent of church men enroll in Bible Qasses ? 66 per cent.
What per cent lead in public prayer? 29 per cent.
Have they conducted any Evangelistic Services? Yes — in some
instances.
Are the men being trained to do Personal Work? Yes — in most of
the organizations.
What per cent contribute to their Church Budget for Current Ex-
penses and Benevolences? 100 per cent.
Churches mentioning special activities in :
Spiritual Life. L Yes — 35.
Evangelism and Missions. IL Yes — 35.
Christian Training in Bible Study. IIL Yes — 35.
Stewardship of Possessions. IV. Yes — 35.
Social Service. V. Yes — 35.
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Total Memberhip 1158 307 421 52 105 50 2093
Benevolent Contributions :
1. Foreign Missions 301 17 10 433
2. Assembly H'me Missions 25 5 1
3. Synod's Home Missions. 3 2 1
4. Presbjrtery's H. Miss'ns 29 5
5. Congregational H. Miss. 4
6. Chris. Ed. and M. R'lf. 15 3 1
7. S. S. Ext. and Pub 5 1
8. Educational Institutions. 21 1
9. Bible Cause 10 1
10. Orphans' Homes 146 10
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Contingent Fees 1500
12. Miscelan's. Contributions 560
13. Total for all purposes.. 2615 32 30 433
Are they under the control of the Session ? Yes.
What form of Church Work do they do? They hold young people's
meetings, study mission, stewardship, and affiliate with other young
people's organizations.
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4. Presbytery's Home Missions
5. Congregational Home Missions
6. Christian Education and Mins'tl Relief.
7. Sunday School Ext. and Publication
8. Educational Institutions
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10. Orphans' Homes
11. Current Exp. and Contingent Fees —
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12. Miscellaneous Contributions
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110
4,415
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$12,849
$ 50
$12,899
4,174
4,174
1,890
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326
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492
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8,426
106
8,532
13. Total to all purposes $52,194 $344 $53,538
Grand Total of Gifts of Women for all
Causes $53,538
Has your Presbytery a Woman's Auxiliary, and how many societies
affiliated with it? Yes— 63.
Are they under control of Session — i. e., has the Session approved
their organization, constitutions and methods of work? Yes.
What form of work do they do? They follow the general plan of
the Auxiliary.
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16. Examinations:
(i) Experimental Piety — The Moderator.
(2) Academic Studies — R. W. Culbertson.
(3) Languages — Latin Thesis and Greek Exegesis — M. E,
Sentelle, J. W. Grier.
(4) Natural and Exact Sciences — H. E. Gurney, C. H. Little.
(5) Mental and Moral Philosophy, Logic and Rhetoric — W. H.
Frazer, W. B. S. Chandler.
(6) Theology — A. S. Johnson, A. A. McGeachy, W. R. Coppedge.
(7) Church History — C. W. Sommerville, G. F. Bell, J. M.
Walker.
(8) Church Government and Sacraments — J. G. Garth, M. E.
Peabody, R. S. Burwell.
TRUSTEES OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
1. Davidson — R. A. Dunn, H. N. Pharr — terms expire 1926; A, A.
McGeachy, J. W. Pharr, W. H. Belk — terms expire 1927.
2. Queens— A. A. McGeachy, T. M. Glasgow, J. L. Choate, P. S.
Gilchrist — terms expire 1928; J. Arthur Henderson, E. E. Jones,
A. J. Crov^ell — terms expire 1926; E. A. McCausiand, J. W. Mc-
Clung, Hunter Marshall — terms expire 1927.
3. Albemarle^-M. J. Harris A., C. Honeycutt, A. E. McCausiand—
terms expire 1928; R. J. Mcllwain, F. S. Neal, W. H. Belk —
terms expire 1926; J. M. Harry, J. W. Stork, J. H. McCrae, Jno.
McDow^ell, J. M. Morrow — terras expire 1927.
4. Stanley Hall— J. A. Little, W. L. Wallis, J. F. Ligon, W. E. Price,
S. B. McLean.
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I MINUTES
I MECKLENBURG
I PRESBYTERY
114th Stated Session, Banks Church
Union, County, N. C.
Oaober 26^27, 1926
ADJOURNED MEETINGS
First Church. Charlotte, N. C, July 5, 1926, September 6, 1926
and September 20, 1926
Next Stated Meeting, Albemarle, N. C.
April 12, 1927
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DIRECTORY
Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine, Moderator Monroe, N. C.
Rev. J. G. Garth, Stated Clerk Charlotte, N. C.
Rev. J. W. Stork, Permanent Clerk Mt. Gilead, N. C
W. E. Price, Treasurer Home Missions Charlotte, N, C.
Trustees of Presbytery— W. H. Belk, H. C. Alexander, J. L. Choate.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Presbytery's Home Missions — J. M. Walker, H. E. Gurney, W. R.
Coppedge, W. B. S. Chandler, C. H. Little, F. S. Neal, W H.
Belk, T. J. Smith, C. P. Brown, W. E. Price, J. F. Ligon, Dr.
R. H. Lafferty.
PERMANENT COMMITTEES
1. Foreign Missions — W. B. Mcllwaine, J. W. Grier, W. L. Wallis,,
J. Arthur Henderson, M. B. Spier.
2. Assembly's Home Missions — J. F. Ligon, C. H. Little, A. S.
Anderson, Jno. B. Ross.
3. Christian Education and Ministerial Relief — J. W. Grier, L. W.
Brown, J. W. McClung.
4. Religious Education — General Chairman : W. B. S. Chandler,
(i) Children's Division: W. M. Wilcox, W. E. Price, M. E.
Peabody.
(2) Young People's Division : J. G. Garth, W. W. Moore, F. H.
Bierman.
(3) Leadership Training: W. S. Hamiter, S. B. Lyerly, H. J.
Spencer.
(4) Sunday School Extension : S. A, Ewart, G. M. Beaty, Dr.
R. H. Lafferty.
5. Bible Cause— S. B. Lyerly, J. W. Stork, J. W. Pharr.
6. Synod's Home Missions— L E. Wallace, B. B. Shankel, C. H.
Caldwell, D. S. Monteith.
7. Orphans' Home — W. H. Johnston, R. W. Culbertson, Wm.
Anderson, W. A. Jamison.
8. Schools and Colleges — W. R. Coppedge, J. R. Bridges, Beatty
Faires, G. M. Rose, Jr.
9. Sabbath and Family Religion— R. J. Mcllwaine, B. B. Shankel,
W. S. Hamiter, Thos. Spratt, Wm. Ross.
10. Evangelism— A. A. Walker, C. E. White, T. G. Hardie.
11. Men's and Women's Societies— L. R. Walker, W. C. Underwood,
J. R. Irwin.
12. Auditing — J. F. Jamison, J. O. Thomas.
13. Stewardship— S. B. McLean, H. E. Gurney, W. H. Frazer, L. R.
Walker, W. E. Price, M. B. Spier, F. S. Neal, J. H. Wearn.
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MINUTES
MECKLENBURG
PRESBYTERY
114th Stated Session, Banks Church
Union, County, N. C.
Ocftober 26-27, 1926
ADJOURNED MEETINGS
First Church, Charlotte, N. C, July 5, 1926, September 6, 1926
and September 20, 1926
Next Stated Meeting, Albemarle, N. C.
April 12, 1927
STATED FALL SESSION
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in the 114th Stated Session
at Banks Church, Tuesday, October 26, 1926, at 10 a. m., and
was opened with a sermon by the moderator. Rev. Q. N.
Huneycutt, Th.D., from Isa. 7:14.
The Lord's Supper was then observed, Rev. J. R. Bridges,
D.D., and Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine, being in charge.
Following this memorial. Presbytery took recess for dinner,
to reconvene at 1 :(X) o'clock.
A quorum being found present. Presbytery was constituted
with prayer by Rev. J. M. Walker.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON— 1:00 o'Oock
Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine was elected moderator; Rev. C. G.
Long was elected temporary clerk.
The chairman of Committee on Arrangements reported and
report received.
Roll of Presbytery
The following ministers and elders attended :
Ministers: A. H. Atkins, J. R. Bridges, G. F. Bell, L. W.
Brown, R. S. Burwell, W. B. S. Chandler, W. R. Coppedge,
S. A. Ewart, W. H. Frazer, J. G. Garth, H. E. Gurney, J. W.
Grier, W. S. Hamiter, Q. N. Huneycutt, T. F. Huneycutt,
G. C. Huntington, A. S. Johnson, W. H. Johnston, J. F.
Ligon, C. H. Little, C. G. Long, S. B. Lyerly, A. A. Mc-
Geachy, S. B. McLean, R. J. Mcllwaine, W. B. Mcllwaine,
M. E. Peabody, C. H. Rowan, B. B. Shankel, A. R. Shaw, W.
T. Smith, C. W. Somerville, J. W. Stork, A. A. Walker, J. M.
Walker, Lynn R. Walker, I. E. Wallace, C. E. White, T. M.
Stribling.— 39.
Elders, representing churches : D. B. McQueen, Albe-
marle; J. O. Stancil, Amity; R. M. Potts, Banks; F. S. Mc-
Connell, Bethel; J. P. Sample, Concord; R. R. Grier, Central
Steel Creek; W. B. Bradford, Charlotte First; J. W. Pharr,
Charlotte Second; S. B. McClure, Cook's Memorial; J. I.
Procter, Cornelius; J. H. McRae, Ellerbe; Vance Sykes, Ham-
let; J. W. Monteith, Huntersville ; A. F. Tiddy, Lee Park;
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Frank S. Sloop, Mallard Creek; J. C. Marsh, Marshville; L. A.
Marshall, Mulberry; A. N. Cagle, Norman; J. C. Kendall, Nor-
wood ; G. S. Mayes, Caldwell Memorial ; C. A. Summerville,
Paw Creek ; J. W. Miller, Philadelphia ; C. B. Grier, Pineville ;
J. O. Neely, Pleasant Hill ; C. O. Howard, Providence ; R. W.
Blackwelder, Seversville ; W. W. Faires, Sharon ; G. E. Howey,
Six-Mile Creek; S. A. Wilson, Steele Creek; C. L. Abernethy,
Sugaw Creek; W. L. Summerville, Thomasboro; W. D. Mc-
Manus, Turner ; J. E. McCain, Waxhaw ; W. A. Jamison, West
Avenue; H. C. Alexander, Westminster; S. E. True, Williams
Memorial. — 37.
Hours of Meeting: 9 :30 a. m. to 12 :30 p. m. Recess for
lunch. Reassemble after recess, 1 :30 to 5 lOO p. m. Recess till
7:00 p. m. Assemble 7:00 p. m. Adjourn at will.
Special Orders : Presbyterial Sermon at 7 :00 p. m. Tues-
day, and Popular meeting for Foreign Missions, 11 a. m. Wed-
nesday.
Rev. R. W. Culbertson was elected as delegate of the Pres-
bytery to the celebration of the 156th anniversary of the organi-
zation of Orange Presbytery in 1770, to be held by Orange
Presbytery, October 28th, at old Hawfields Church.
Presbytery voted to send a telegram of good-will and con-
gratulation to Orange Presbytery. This message was sent by
the Stated Clerk.
Rev. J. B. Hillhouse, of Bethel Presbytery, and Rev. T. M.
Stribling, of Augusta Presbytery, were introduced and invited
to sit as visiting brethren.
Various communications were read and referred to the re-
spective committees.
The hour of 3 :00 o'clock was set for special order to hear
the Committee on Evangelism and Missions.
Dr. R. H. Lafiferty was given the privilege of the floor, and
presented the Standard Teachers' Training School to be held in
Charlotte, Second Church, November 14-19, 1926.
The Moderator appointed the following standing com-
mittees :
Devotional: W. S. Hamiter and Dr. R. M. Potts.
Arrangement: W. S. Hamiter and J. G. Garth.
BUls and Overtures: Q. N. Huneycutt, Th.D., A. H.
Atkins, D.D., W. A. Jamison, W. L. Wallis.
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Judicial: S. B. McLean, J. M. Walker, W. B. Bradford.
Home Missions: Lynn R. Walker, D.D., J. P. Sample,
Vance Sykes, C. B. Grier.
Calls and Supplies: C. H. Rowan, S. A. Ewart, C. L.
Abernethy, W. P. McManus.
Records of Presbytery: G. C. Huntington, J. O. Stancil,
A. F. Tiddy.
Leave of Absence: H. E. Gurney, John Coffie,
Nomination: C. H. Little, A. A. Walker, H. C. Alexander,
with the Moderator and Stated Clerk.
Thanks: L. W. Brown, J. C. Marsh.
General Assembly's Minutes: J. F. Ligon and G. F. Bell.
On Presbyterial Assessment: S. B. Lyerly and J. L
Proctor.
After presenting his credentials to Presbytery, Rev.
T. M. Stribling was examined on Experimental Religion,
Theology, and Church Government and was received and
enrolled as a member of Mecklenburg Presbytery from
Augusta Presbytery after he had signed the Covenant.
Other communications were read and referred to the
various committees.
The Permanent Committee on Religious Education sub-
mitted its report. The report was received and pending the
adoption of the recommendation, very favorable reports
were given by the pastors assisted during the summer by
the young ladies from the Assembly's Training School.
The recommendation of the report was adopted as fol-
lows :
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Your Committee on Religious Education respectfully report that we
carried out the instructions of Presbytery and secured two young ladies
from the Training School at Richmond to do field work among our out-
lying and mission churches during the summer, viz : Misses Carrie L.
Brittain and Ruth McRae. Illness necessitated the absence of Miss
McRae from the work for five weeks, during four of which Miss Mar-
garet Warren, also from the Training School, substituted for her.
Our sub-chairman on Leadership Training, Rev. W. S. Hamiter.
was most faithful and persistent in arranging the summer schedule and
efTecting changes as the need for them arose. We had more applications
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for this work than we could meet. Preference was given to the weaker
churches, and the work was distributed over the Presbytery as evenly as
possible.
The average attendance at the Daily Vacation Bible Schools, most
of which ran for two weeks, was as follows : Waxhaw, 44 ; Thomasboro,
65; Pleasant Hill, 31; Lee Park, 30; Roberdell, 53; Mt. Carmel, 11; and
Ellerbe, 91 ; a total of 326. The total enrollment was 392. The average
attendance in the Teacher Training Qasses was as follows: Thomas-
boro, 28; McGee, 14; Pleasant Hill, 52; Lee Park, 41; Turner, 23. A
few credits were taken but the number was not reported. Revival services
in the fields interfered with this phase of the work and prevented the
holding of a larger number of training classes.
Receipts from the field and disbursements of the same were as fol-
lows :
Thomasboro $ 9.11 Com. of Publicat'n, Supplies_$16.00
McGee 7.99 Com. of Publicat'n, Books___ 13.65
Roberdell 6.00 G. F. Bell, Telephone 1.10
Lee Park 10.00 W. S. Hamiter, Postage and
Ellerbe 5.25 Travel 4.50
Miss Brittain, Travel 3.10
Total _1 $38.35 Total .—$38.35
Presbytery appropriated $200.00 each from Presbytery's Tax Fund
and the Treasury of Presbytery's Home Missions for the expenses of
this work ; but less than half of these sums was used :
From the Tax Fund :
Miss Brittain, 12 weeks' salary $90.00
Miss Brittain, travel expense 1.20
Total $91.20
From the Home Mission Treasury :
Miss Warren, 4 weeks' salary $30.00
Miss McRae, 7 weeks' salary 52.50
Miss McRae, travel expense 4.55
Total $87.05
Travel expense to the field and one-half the salary was borne by the
Committee of Publication at Richmond.
We recommend the continuance of this work next summer and the
emplayment of four workers instead of two, with appropriations of
$3(K).00 each from Presbytery's Tax Fund and Treasury of Home
Missions.
G. F. BELL, Chairman.
The report of the Committee on Christian Education and
Ministerial Relief was submitted. The report was received
and the recommendation was adopted :
The following are the Candidates for the Ministry on our rolls :
H. W. Alexander, B. F. Brown, G. C. Crowell, J. M. Davis, I. M.
Ellis, Jack Hand, E. E. Houghton, S. E. Howie, J. F. Hutchinson, B. B.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 7
Long, E. P. Lathery, Claude Mcintosh, J. A. Mclntyre, C. L. Norwood,
C K. Poole, J. M. Smith, Jonathan M. Smith, W. G. Thomas, P. P.
Thrower, G. E. Weeks, T. F. Wallace, M. C. Yeargan.
I have been unable to get any report from I. M. Ellis, Espy P.
Lathery, John Mauney Smith, Jonathan M. Smith, Guy E. Weeks.
H. W. Alexander is at Centre College ; B. F. Brown, C L. Norwood,
C. K. Poole, P. P. Thrower and Jack Hand are at Davidson College;
J. M. Davis is at Presbyterian College of S. C ; G. C. Crowell, B. B.
Long and W. G. Thomas are at Union Seminary.
Claude Mcintosh, M. C. Yeargan, T. F. Wallace, and J. F. Hutchin-
son are at Columbia Seminary.
E. E. Houghton is traveling in the East. He expects to enter semi-
nary one year hence.
J. A. Mclntyre is working for Home Mission Committee, at Ellerbe.
We have made recommendations on the basis of their requests and
the requests of their sessions to our Central Committee for loans as fol-
lows :
$175.00 to the following: J. M. Davis, C. L. Norwood and C. K.
Poole, G. C. Crowell.
$150.00 to the following: B. B. Long, Claude Mcintosh, P. P.
Thrower, T. F. Wallace, W. G. Thomas, M. C. Yeargan.
$100.00 to S. E. Howie.
J. W. GRIER.
The report on the Alexander Loan Fund was read and
referred to a temporary Auditing Committee consisting of
W. A. Jamison and W. L. Wallis.
The trustees of the Presbytery reported verbally through
Rev. A. A. Walker to the effect that the deed for the Stanley
Hall property had been recorded and that the deed to the old
Pegram Street Church had been turned over to the trustees
of Plaza Church.
The Committee on Assembly's Home Missions read a
communication from the Assembly's Executive Committee,
as its report. The report was received and the recommen-
dations were adopted as follows :
1. The communication from the Assembly's Committee be read as
information.
2. The total askings of 16 per cent be appropriated to this cause
by the Presbytery.
3. The moderator be asked to invoke the divine blessing on this
work.
WM. B. S. CHANDLER, Chairman.
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In accordance with the last recommendation Rev. R. J.
Mcllwaine, the Moderator, led the Presbytery in prayer.
The commission to install Rev. C. H. Rowan at Paw
Creek and Cook's Memorial reported these installations ac-
complished on July 18, 1926. Rev. J. G. Garth, Ruling Elder
W. E. Price executed the work of the commission. Rev. J.
M. Walker, the other member, being unable to attend.
The Stated Clerk reported the performance of the Pres-
bytery's order to visit Sharon Church as follows :
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The Stated Clerk reports that in pursuance with the order of Presby-
tery to read to the congregation of Sharon Church the report of the com-
mittee to inquire into state of religion in Sharon Church and to preach a
sermon in connection with the proceeding, he obeyed the order on Sab-
bath, October 17th. The congregation of Sharon Church received the
reading of the report with respectful and Christian attention, and showed
marvelous patience during the preaching of a sermon on Spiritual Mind-
edness.
J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
The committee on the installation of Rev. H. H. Cassady
reported and was continued.
Licentiate T. F. Grier reported on his activities. The
report was accepted and his diligence commended.
The Stated Clerk, assisted by Rev. H. E. Gurney, D.D.,
was instructed to investigate the activities of Licentiate
C. B. Alexander and report at the next adjourned meeting
of Presbytery.
The Committee on Evangelism and Missions made its
report which was received. Pending the adoption of the
recommendations, comments were made on the work of
Evangelism by Revs. C. E. White, J. W. Stork, L. W.
Brown, B. B. Shankel, and others.
The recommendations were adopted as amended.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON EVANGELISM
The reports received by your committee indicate very clearly that the
spirit of revival is alive among our people. Reports have been received
from 29 of the 47 arranged for by Presbytery as its Spring meeting, in
a total of 249 days ; resulting in 219 professions, 130 accessions to the
Church by profession, and 31 by letter ; a total of 161. We cannot empha-
size too much the importance of a series of evangelistic meetings in every
church, at least once a year. There should be a time of harvest, as well
as a time of sowing.
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Letters accompanying these reports to your committee reveal the
fact that while we must always depend upon the Holy Spirit for power
in revival, there is a distinct and definite work for us to do. There are
two factors that have contributed largely to the success of the meetings
that have been held: 1st, where the churches have made careful and
prayerful preparation for the meetings, God has been present in power ;
2nd, the churches in which men have exercised the privilege of personal
evangelism, the blessing has come. It is not enough to hold a meeting in
a perfunctory way, merely because it is the custom ; this work should be
undertaken seriously. The Holy Spirit operates largely through active,
consecrated lives ; and if men will give themselves to the definite personal
service, the results will be well worth while.
Your committee would ask Presbytery for suggestions or instructions
to enable it to articulate more efficiently with the churches under its
care. Our only desire is to serve. Of the 47 meetings arranged for in
the Spring, 12, for various reasons, had no minister assigned ; but 35 had
ministers assigned. Of the 29 reports received by your committee, 20
were from churches where ministers were assigned; but only 10 of these
were held by the minister thus assigned, while 10 were held by others.
Your committee would like to see the Presbytery's evangelistic program
100 per cent efficient.
Your committee would recommend:
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1. That Presbytery again emphasize the importance of a series of
evangelistic meetings in every church, at least once a year, if practicable ;
and that careful and prayerful preparation be made for these meetings, not
only throughout the year, but in the several weeks immediately preceding
them; and that pastors be urged to enlist his men, as far as possible, in
personal evangelistic service.
2. That the churches under the care of this committee be requested
to suggest to the committee the names of men whom they would wish to
have assigned to their churches for the year beginning April 1, 1927;
and that these suggestions be sent to the committee some weeks before the
Spring session of Presbytery.
3. That the Committee on Evangelism secure a list of ministers who
are willing to hold evangelistic meetings in the Presbytery.
4. That we call upon all our people to offer prayer in behalf of
these meetings ; upon the churches, the pastors, and the men who are
doing the preaching.
COMMITTEE ON EVANGELISM.
10 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
PARTIAL LIST OF MEETINGS HELD IN MECKLENBURG
PRESBYTERY— APRIL 1 TO FALL MEETING
Meetings held as assigned :
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1. Macedonia— J. G. Garth, J. G. Garth 8 5 5
2. Polkton— J. W. Stork, J. W. Stork 7 3 3 2
3. Roberdel — A. S. Anderson, A. S. Anderson 8 10 5 2
4. Beulah— W. T. Smith, W. T. Smith 7 11 6 4
5. Morgan Memorial — S. B. McLean, S. B. McLean__ 8 2 15
6. Stanfield— B. B. Shankel, B. B. Shankel 8 7 12
7. Oakboro— A. A. Walker, A. A. Walker 8 3
8. Bethlehem— W. H. Frazer, W. H. Frazer 5 10
9. Midland— A. A. Walker, A. A. Walker 6 3 3 3
10. Bethel— A. A. Walker, A. A. Walker 8 7 7
Meetings held by others than those assigned :
1. Mt. Carmel— C. E. White, A. H. Atkins 7
2. Marston— W. B. S. Chandler, S. B. McLean 8 10 10 1
3. Wadeville— J. G. Garth, W. H. Johnston 8 2 2
4. Troy— J. W. Stork, W. C. Black 8 36 10
5. Peachland— J. M. Walker, B. B. Shankel 8
6. Pageland— J. W. Stork, W. C Black 9 20 14 2
8. Salem— R. J. Mcllwaine, S. B. Lyerly 8 9 7 2
8. Siler— C H. Little, H. H. Cassady 8
9. Locust— W. B. Mcllwaine, C. E. White 6 3 1
10. Indian Trail— J. F. Ligon, Union Meeting 30 19 19 2
Meetings for which no assignment was made :
1. Walkersville— W. T. Smith 7 19 19 1
2. Altan— W. J. Hunneycutt 8 3 3 1
3. Bethany— B. B. Shankel 7 4 4 1
4. Rehoboth— C. G. Long 7 1
5. Rourk's Chapel— W. H. Johnston 8
6. McLean Memorial— W. T. Smith 8 3 3
7. Norman— C. E. White 8 6
8. Marshville— Mc. R. Long 15 24 4 1
9. Morven— A. A. Walker 8 4 3
39 249 219 130 31
Ten o'clock Wednesday morning was set as the special
order to hear the report of the Stewardship Committee.
The report by the temporary Auditing Committee con-
sisting of W. A. Jamison and W. L. Wallis was made and
adopted :
We have examined the Treasurer's book of the Alexander Fund,
Rev. J. W. Grier being the treasurer. We find that the former treasurer,
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 11
Rev. M. E. Sentelle, on November 18, 1925, turned over to Mr. Grier
the sum of $264.55
April 1, '26— Interest was paid by G. M. Rose 300.00
Refunds also by B. C. Moore were paid on dates from January 30
to May 19, 1926 70.00
Total $634.55
Records show following loans :
December 28, '25— To M. C Yearger $ 50.00
May 4, '25— To William G. Thomas 50.00
April 21, '26— To E. M. Williamson 50.00
April Zl, '26— To James C. Wool 50.00
October 16— To Paul P. Thomas 50.00
Cash in Bank $384.55 $634.55
Above notes were not submitted but a statement by J. L. Choate that
he had compared notes for these loans and that they agree with the records
was submitted.
Respectfully submitted by
W. A. JAMISON,
W. L, WALLIS,
Committee.
Presbytery took recess until 7:00 o'clock.
TUESDAY NIGHT
Presbytery resumed work at 6:15 p. m.
The Committee on Bible Cause made its report, which
was adopted.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON THE BIBLE CAUSE
Your Committee on the Bible Cause submits the following report :
It is with profound gratitude to God that we note a continued increase
both in the demand for and in the production of the Word of God. We
hope that all our ministers and church members will try in some way to
realize what a tremendous and fruitful work the American Bible Society
is doing. During the one hundred and ten years of its existence it has
published and distributed 173,976,296 copies of the Bible or portions of it.
During the year 1925 it published and distributed 9,069,130 copies of the
Bible and parts of it. When we remember that the Word of God is the
most effective missionary agency in the world we may get a faint idea of
the good that is being done by this Society.
We would also like to call the attention of our ministers and church
members to the small amount of money our Church is giving to this great
cause. We are asked to give only six-tenths of one per cent of our
benevolent contributions to this cause. Surely this percentage is none too
great, and we cannot afford to let our gifts fall below that amount as a
minimum. The amount asked by the Assembly for the Bible Cause is
$28,500, but as a matter of fact last year we gave only about $19,000. We
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fell short of the least amount we should have given by $9,000. Let us
look at the deficit in terms of copies of the Scriptures we failed to dis-
tribute. A dime will purchase a copy of the New Testament. This means
that we withheld 95,000 copies of the New Testament from people at home
and on the foreign field who haven't one, many of whom have never seen
one. We have no way of knowing how many hundreds or even thousands
of people would have been brought to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ
by these 95,000 copies of the Testament if we had placed them in their
hands. May we express the hope that our Church which is pre-eminent in
its zeal for the pure Word of God and for the great cause of Missions,
may with a larger sympathy and a more generous purse appreciate the
needs and the services of the American Bible Society. It is greatly handi-
capped in its mission by a lack of funds.
The American Bible Society is eager for all of our people to know
that it exists to serve the church and all our missionary agencies. They
would like for our ministers and people alike to get in touch with the
Society when in need of Bibles for personal use or for missionary
purposes.
We wish to call your attention also to the fact that there are three
agencies of the American Bible Society which serve the states included
within the bounds of our Assembly. There is the South Atlantic Agency,
Rev. M. B. Porter, Secretary, 218 N. Adams St., Richmond, Va., which
serves Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
and Florida.
We would recommend that more stress be laid by our ministers and
Sunday School workers upon the great work the Society is doing as a
missionary agency at home and abroad, as well as upon its financial
needs, and that we all see to it that this cause is not robbed of any portion
of its pitiably small part of our benevolences.
S. B. LYERLY.
J. W. STORK.
H. C. ALEXANDER, TRUSTEE
In connection with the report of the Nomination Com-
mittee, Mr. H. C. Alexander, of Charlotte, was elected a
trustee of the Presbytery to succeed Mr. J. M. Oates, de-
ceased.
The completed report of the Nominations Committee
was read and adopted. See inside of covers of this copy of
Minutes for revised list.
The Committee on Church Assessments reported and the
report was adopted as follows :
LIST OF CHURCHES WHICH DID NOT PAY THEIR PRESBY-
TERIAL ASSESSMENTS FOR THE YEAR 1925-26
Bethlehem, Biscoe, Camden, Candor, Ellerbe Springs, Hopewell, In-
dian Trail, Lee Park, Locust, Mark's Creek, McLean Memorial, Midland,
Morgan Memorial, Morven, Oakboro, Palestine, Rehoboth, Rourk's
Chapel, Salem, Sharon, Siler, Stephenson, Turner, Wadeville. — 24.
S. B. LYERLY,
J. L PROCTOR,
Committee.
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Ruling elders N. J. Phillips and W. B. Hutchinson re-
ported attendance on the General Assembly at Pensacola
last May. Their diligence was commended.
TREASURER'S REPORT
Amounts received from assessments due April 1, 1926, paid by
68 churches $2,802.53
Amounts disbursed:
Rev. J. D. Leslie, D.D., for General Assembly dues $1,218.40
W. E. Price, Treasurer, $100; plus $3.67 Telegram 103.67
Presbyterian Standard, Spring Minutes $226.50
Other Bills 28.35 254.35
Auditors 25.00
Stated Clerk's salary — for six months 100.00
Permanent Clerk's salary for 12 months 30.00
Miss Carrie L. Brittain, teacher in D. V. B. S. $90.00
Expense 1.20 91.20
G. F. Bell, expense in D. V. B. S. 9.24
Rev. R. A. McLeod, Stated Clerk of Synod, dues 233.76
Total $2,066.12
Balance in Commercial National Bank 831.45
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The matter of the Historical Society was brought by the
Nominating Committee to the consideration of Presbytery.
The paper was received and the recommendations were
adopted as amended.
The communication from Rev. S. M. Tenney, Curator of
the Presbyterian Historical Society, located in Texarkana,
Texas, is as follows :
To the Presbytery of Mecklenburg — Fathers and Brethren :
The Historical Society of the Synod of Texas was offered to the Gen-
eral Assembly of our Church, which convened in Pensacola, Fla., May
20, 1926. This offer was commended by overtures from three Synods, and
two Presbyteries in other Synods. The Assembly accepted the offer and
made provision for the continuance of the work.
All branches of the Presbyterian Church in this country, of any size,
have historical organizations for collecting and preserving historical
materials, and to encourage and provide for historical research. Though
the work in our Church has been too long neglected and much that would
have been of great value has been lost beyond recovery, yet, we begin
our service with a splendid collection of manuscripts, records, minutes,
books, booklets, pamphlets, reviews, church paper files, photographs, etc.
In two or three departments we are now able to offer advantages for
research work second only to three other collections in the United States.
All branches of the Church are inter-related. Our plan, therefore,
comprehends all branches of the Presbyterian Church. This is absolutely
necessary to the full appreciation and study of any one division of the
Church.
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We are shortly to have a large and one of the best of Scotch and
English historical collections. This will enable us to provide data for the
proper study of the antecedents of the Church in our country.
The plan of operation calls for : I, manuscript letters, diaries, docu-
ments, monograms, etc. ; II, records of the Church, minutes of sessions.
Presbyteries, Synods, Assemblies, committees; III, a library containing
books, booklets, brochures, etc., productions of Presbyterians, or touching
any phase of Presbyterian history, doctrine, or worship (hymn books,
etc.) ; IV, museum, relics of interest, sounding boards, church bells, com-
munion sets, tokens, gavels of historic associations, or other relics of
personal or general historic associations ; and V, a gallery of photographs
of individuals, groups. Presbyteries, Synods, Assemblies, churches, church
buildings, Auxiliaries, conferences, etc.
That every effort may be made to get the history of the Church and
to assure the hearty co-operation of the whole Church, we are asking
each Presbytery, Presbyterial, Synod, and Synodical to appoint a historical
committee, carefully selecting as chairman one interested who will follow
instructions and plans sent out. We are, therefore, addressing you and
your body praying the appointment of such a committee. Upon notification
of the appointment of your chairman he will be supplied with information
for his own use and for distribution.
We, further, pray you to adopt the following resolutions, which have
already been adopted by three Synods and a number of Presbyteries.
Whereas, the General Assembly has approved the establishment of a
Historical Society and accepted the offer of the Historical Society of the
Synod of Texas as a nucleus, and
Whereas, it is of the utmost importance that all records be kept under
the best fire protection, not subject to circulation and misplacement, and
that they should be assembled at one point for convenience to the Church
for research, and
Whereas, the co-operation of the whole Church is necessary to ac-
complish the desired end, therefore be it
Resolved :
I. That this Presbytery give its hearty approval to the establishment
of a Historical Society for our Church.
II. That this Presbytery evidence its disposition to co-operate in
this service by permitting copies of its original Minutes to be deposited
with the Historical Society of Texarkana, Texas, now adopted by the
General Assembly.
III. That the Presbytery direct its Stated Clerk to regularly file two
copies of its printed Minutes and all other official papers printed by the
Presbytery with the said named Historical Society.
IV. That the Presbytery commend the Historical Society to all
churches and individuals throughout its bounds for contributions of his-
toric interest and for financial support.
Very sincerely your servant,
S. M. TENNEY, Curator,
General Assembly's Historical Department.
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The communication was received and adopted, and
amended in the case of Recommendation II.
Revs. J. G. Garth, C. W. Somerville, D.D., and W. H.
Frazer, D.D., were appointed as a historical committee.
The Presbyterial Sermon was preached by Rev. A. H.
Atkins, D.D., from Acts 2:38, subject: "Repentance."
Presbytery then adjourned to reconvene at 9:30 a. m.
Wednesday.
WEDNESDAY MORNING
Presbytery convened at 9 :30 a. m. The devotional exer-
cises were conducted by Rev. W. H. Frazer, D.D.
The Minutes of Tuesday's sessions were read and ap-
proved as amended.
Rev. C. K. Gumming, D.D., of Norfolk Presbytery, was
introduced and invited to sit as a visiting brother.
The Stated Glerk was instructed to communicate with
Rev. A. S. Anderson, of Badin, and ask him to make a defi-
nite answer by the Spring Meeting of Presbytery as to the
Call extended to him about four years ago for his pastoral
services in the Badin Church.
The Stewardship Committee made its report, which was
received. Pending consideration, the discussion was in-
terrupted to hear a committee on the organization of a new
church in Myers Park, Charlotte.
A petition for the organization of a Presbyterian Church
in Myers Park, was read together with a list of 146 appli-
cants for membership in this church. Presbytery granted
the petition and the following commission was appointed to
organize this church : Revs. W. H. Frazer, D.D., C. C.
Beam, G. F. Bell, D.D., and S. B. Lyerly, with elders R. A.
Dunn, and J. Arthur Henderson. The commission and the
prospective church were allowed to set the date for this or-
ganization, the quorum for this commission to be the same
as a Presbytery.
The report of the Foreign Missions Committee was read
as the order of the day, and received. Pending the adoption
of the recommendations. Rev. C. K. Gumming, D.D., one of
our recently retired missionaries to Japan, delivered a very
forceful adddress on the work in Japan.
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Presbytery voted its appreciation for Dr. Cumming's
address.
The recommendations were adopted in accordance with
recommendation number one. Rev. Lynn R. Walker, D.D.,
led Presbytery in special prayer for the cause of Foreign
Missions. The report follows :
FOREIGN MISSIONS
Your Committee on Foreign Missions begs leave to submit the fol-
lowing report :
1. We do not profess to be bringing you fresh information, being
conscious of the fact that we are only reminding you of the tremendous
task that challenges us, when we say that our Foreign Mission work is
being carried on today in four continents : Asia, Africa, South America
and North America. Our Church is supporting nine mission stations on
this far-flung battle line. Two in Cuba, one in Japan, one in Korea, one
in Africa, three in Brazil, and one in Mexico.
In this large foreign parish our Church is responsible for the
evangelization of approximately 33 million people. Engaged in the actual
work of evangelizing our Church has 519 foreign workers who are as-
sisted in this labor by approximately 3,500 native workers and
evangelists. Something like 5,000 people were added to the Church last
year through the faithful efforts of these workers.
For the support of our Foreign Mission work the Assembly is asking
our churches to contribute this year, in round numbers, the sum of one
million, six hundred thousand dollars. It is not asking this amount with a
view to squandering it, nor yet with a view to expanding the work. It is
asking for this amount merely with a view to maintaining the work on the
basis already projected. If the motto and ambition of our Church are
what they ought to be, viz :
"The whole wide world for Jesus, for Jesus,
The whole wide world for Jesus Christ our Lord,"
then surely we cannot but be impressed with the conservative character of
the Assembly's request. The magnitude of the task demands a much
larger outlay of funds.
2. Your committee wishes to lay emphasis upon the responsibility
and obligation that rests upon pastors and church officers in connection
with our Foreign Mission work. "Here are millions in our Foreign
Parish who have never heard the Gospel and whose only hope of hearing
it is through the gifts and prayers of our Southern Presbyterian Church
members. But how shall the cry of these unreached millions reach the
ears of our church members? Through the pastor, supported by his
officers. His is the awful responsibility of being the mouthpiece through
which alone their cry can effectively reach our people. If he is faithless
or indifferent, a non-conductor instead of an eager -hearted transmitter,
how will he face these millions at the last great day? What will he
answer to his Lord ?
Financial!
Since 1921 our appropriations for work on the field have been cut to
the bone. A further increase of our missionary force without a large
increase of income would result in our inability to furnish our missionaries
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with enough money apiece to make their field work effective. At its April
meeting, therefore, the Committee decided not to send out any new mis-
sionaries for the ensuing year except by way of "replacements" that are
absolutely necessary. As a consequence our active missionary force since
April 1st, due to unsupplied vacancies caused by deaths and resignations,
has shrunk from 516 to 505. Only a substantial increase in our income
can check a still further decline.
Receipts from churches in our Presbytery up to October 1st total
$18,627.51. 49 churches have contributed this amount. 31 churches have
contributed nothing.
Mexico
Regarding the present religious situation in Mexico, of which the
Associated Press has given full reports in our daily papers, the Executive
Committee of Foreign Missions and our Mexican missionaries are in full
sympathy with the Mexican government in its endeavor to enforce its laws
against the opposition of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. This struggle,
we believe, heralds the dawning of a new day for evangelical missions in
our sister republic.
New Secretary and Editor
By action of the General Assembly, Rev. Dr. C. Darby Fulton enters
upon his work as Field Secretary of the Executive Committee of Foreign
Missions. The editorship of the Foreign Mission part of the Presbyte-
rian Survey, made vacant by the retirement of our beloved senior Secre-
tary, who now becomes Secretary-Emeritus, has been assigned to the
Educatic«ial Secretary, Mr. Edward D. Grant, who enters upon his edi-
torial duties with the November issue. The prayers of the Church are
asked that these two brethren may be richly blessed in their new spheres
of service.
Recommendations
1. That we here and now be led in a special prayer that God will
give our pastors a sense of their Foreign Mission responsibility, since
through them alone can the cry of the unevangelized millions in our
Foreign Parish effectively reach the ears of our people.
2. That Church Schools of Missions studying Foreign Missions be
organized in every church in our Assembly during the month of January
in accordance with the plan of fostering mission study by the Educational
Department of the Foreign Mission Committee, that they use the text-
book on Brazil and the others recommended for these Schools of Missions
this year.
3. That all Young People's Societies of our Assembly be encouraged
to secure from the Educational Department the special missionary pro-
grams already prepared as they are called for in the regular Young Peo-
ple's Society topic schedules.
4. That every Sunday School and Young People's Society in our
Assembly be encouraged to pray earnestly and very definitely for Foreign
Missions this year, getting from the Educational Department a copy of
"Our Prayer Each Week" which will greatly assist them in this.
5. That during this year all Sunday Schools be urged to study in-
tensively the work of our Korea Mission and that they apply all their
Foreign Mission gifts to the $60,000 being raised this year by our Sunday
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Schools for Korea, it being understood, of course, that all of such offer-
ings shall be credited to the Church as part of its Foreign Mission appor-
tionment, and not as an additional offering.
6. That our Young People's Societies be urged to apply all their
Foreign Mission offerings to those special missionaries assigned by the
General Assembly to the Southern Presbyterian Young People's Societies,
it being understood that all such offerings shall be credited to the Church
as part of its Foreign Mission apportionment and not as an additional
offering.
7. That, whenever practicable, ministers invite furloughed mission-
aries into their pulpits so that the Foreign Mission enterprise of our
Church may be personalized to our people through acquaintance with those
missionaries, such missionary visits to be arranged through the Educa-
tional Department.
8. That ministers in all churches in this Assembly be asked to ac-
quaint their congregations with more of the facts of our Foreign Mission
work, making sure that their members are correctly informed as to the
missionary enterprise.
9. That churches, societies, and Sunday Schools be urged to allocate
the Foreign Mission apportionments in their budgets to the support of
definite parts of the Foreign Mission work, thus establishing vital and
inspiring contact with the foreign field.
10. That we observe the week ending February 5, 1927, in accordance
with the recommendation of the General Assembly, as a special Week
of Prayer for Foreign Missions.
Respectfully submitted,
J. F. LIGON, Chairman.
The consideration of the recommendations of the Stew-
ardship Committee was resumed.
Ruling elder W. E. Price was given the privilege of the
floor during the Stewardship discussion.
Presbytery took recess for lunch, to reassemble at the
call of the Moderator.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
Presbytery reconvened at 1 :30 p. m.
Special orders were made to hear the Committee on
Schools and Colleges, and then to hear Dr. J. R. Bridges
on the Presbyterian Standard immediately after the con-
clusion of the Stewardship Committee's report.
The report of the Stewardship Committee was again re-
sumed, and completed with the adoption of the recommen-
dations as a whole or amended.
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REPORT OF STEWARDSHIP COMMITTEE
The report of the Every Member Canvass herewith submitted shows
that a larger amount was subscribed to both Benevolent and Current Ex-
pense Causes than ever before. The number of subscriptions secured show-
ed a slight decrease over last year. Reports were secured from all but
14 churches : Rourk's Chapel, Beulah, Porter, Morgan's Memorial, Salem,
Locust, Allen, Lilesville, Camden, McLean's Memorial, Midland, Pales-
tine, Stanfield, and Stephenson.
Your Committee is convinced that this Presbytery could easily reach
the full amount of the Benevolent Askings if it were possible to get all of
the churches of the Presbytery to make as complete a canvass as some
churches are already doing. Compare the number of members and the
number of subscriptions made by the following churches : Charlotte
Second, Caldwell Memorial, Monroe, Steele Creek, Mulberry, McGee,
Mallard Creek, Pee Dee, Newell. There are 8,204 members in this Pres-
bytery that made no subscription to the Benevolent Cause. If it were
possible to secure as much as 10 cents a week from these members it would
give us an additional amount of $42,660. This would easily balance the
Benevolent and Current Expense Askings for the Presbytery.
Your attention is called to the average per capita gifts of the Presby-
tery. The seven year average is $11.49, the average for 1926 is $12.42.
There are only 21 churches in the Presbytery that gave last year over
five dollars per member. We feel sure that this can be greatly increased,
and we are glad to note that many churches show an increase in their
per capita gifts for 1926 over the seven year period : Charlotte Second,
Caldwell Memorial, Westminster, Central Steele Creek, Morven, Paw
Creek, Steele Creek, Mulberry. Williams' Memorial, Thomasboro, Mal-
lard Creek, Pineville, Wilmore, Mark's Creek, St. Paul's, Newell, Phila-
delphia, Siler, Macedonia, Mt. Carmel, Porter, Altan, and Banks. These
increases are very gratifying.
Recommendations :
1st. That the Benevolent Askings for the year beginning April 1,
1927, of the churches of the Presbytery named in this report amounting
to $176,754, be adopted, and that all churches be urged to present these
Askings to their congregation as a minimum amount to be raised for the
Benevolent Causes.
Exceptions were made in these askings as follows : Thomasboro,
$2 per member ; Wilmore, $2, and Mt. Gilead, $3.
2nd. That pastors and church officers exercise greater diligence in
their efforts to secure a subscription from every member of the Church
and not be content with simply raising the budget of their church, recog-
nizing that the church members who do not worship God with their sub-
stance as He has blessed them fail to have part with Christ in reconciling
the world to Himself.
3rd. That the per centum for distribution of the Benevolent Funds
for the year 1927 be the same as for the present year, and we urge that
every church strictly observe this distribution. That sessions, as far as
practicable with their local work, shall adopt for the distribution of their
Benevolent Funds percentages recommended by the General Assembly,
the Synod and Presbytery, which are as follows : Foreign Missions, 33.3 ;
Assembly's Home Missions, 16.; Christian Education and Ministerial
Relief, 7.5 ; Publication and Sunday School Work, 2. ; Assembly's Train-
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ing School, .6; Bible Cause, .6; Synod's Home Missions, 7.5; Schools
and Colleges, 8.7; Unicm Theological Seminary, 1.3; Barium Springs,
7.5; Presbytery's Home Missions, 15.; Montreat N. C Home, .25.
4th. That November be designated as Stewardship Month, and that
"Royal Partnership," by M. E. Melvin, be the Stewardship book to be
studied. During the week of February 14 to 20, 1927, special emphasis
be placed on loyalty to the causes of the Church. That March 13, 1927,
be designated as Every Member Canvass Day. That the week ending
March 31, 1927, be observed as Pay Up Week.
5th. That the Stewardship Committee hold Stewardship Conferences
in the Presbytery as heretofore.
6th. That Barium Springs Orphanage be allotted the Thanksgiving
oflfering and that every church be urged to make this offering equal at
least to the amount assigned in the budget, and that this offering be not
considered as a part of the Benevolent Askings for the Orphanage, but as
an over and above gift.
7th. That pastors, elders and deacons be urged to co-operate with the
Advisory Council of business men and women in their effort to balance the
Benevolent Askings of the Synod.
8th. That the treasurers of Churches, Woman's Auxiliaries, Sunday
Schools, and Young People's Societies be urged to remit all Benevolent
Funds in their hands to Mr. W. E. Price, No. 30 West Fifth Street,
Charlotte, N. C, treasurer of Benevolent Funds of Mecklenburg Presby-
tery, on the FIRST DAY OF EACH MONTH.
9th, That where a church remits Benevolent Funds direct, that a
monthly report be mailed to Mr. W. E. Price, so that the report of their
church may be included in the quarterly reports sent out from the office
of Synod's Secretary of Stewardship.
10th. That church treasurers be instructed not to use Benevolent
Funds for the purpose of paying Pastor's Salaries and Current Expenses,
that such use of money is a misappropriation of trust funds, and results in
reducing the contributions of the members when they discover that such
is the practice of the treasurer, and we further recommend two treasurers
for each church, one for Curent Expenses and the other for Benevolences,
and that the funds be kept entirely separate and distinct.
11th. That pastors and church officers give greater diligence to
bringing men and women to understand the command of Jesus when He
said, "Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven," so that our members
may receive the joy of giving in this life and the reward in the life to
come.
12th. That the Men-of-the-Church, Woman's Auxiliaries, Sunday
Schools, and Young People's Societies be urged to give careful thought to
the five departments of the Progressive Program. 1st, Spiritual Life;
2nd, Evangelism and Missions ; 3rd, Christian Training ; 4th, Stewardship ;
5th, Christian Social Service, and that as these departments contain the
entire work of the Church that they consider their promotion to be their
principle task.
13th. That in conformity with the action of Synod, taken at its
meeting in Statesville, that this Presbytery assume for the year beginning
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January 1, 1927, as its part of the expenses of the Stewardship office of
Synod the sum of $1,415, that $1,039 of this amount be included in the
expenses of Presbytery, that the Presbyterial assessment be raised so as
to include this amount, and that $376 of the aforesaid $1,415 be paid by
the Presbytery's Home Mission Committee. That the separate treasurers
of these funds are hereby instructed to remit one-twelfth of these amounts
each month to the Synod's Secretary of Stewardship.
The report was adopted as amended, and a committee
was appointed to determine what the Presbyterial assess-
ment should be, to report at the adjourned meeting of Pres-
bytery, December 6, 1926. The committee is the Stated
Clerk, Rev. G. F. Bell, D.D., and Elder W. E. Price. See
sheet pasted in back of Minutes for report of Every Mem-
ber Canvass.
By common consent, the report of the Executive Com-
mittee of Home Missions was read and referred to the
Standing Committee on Presbyterial Home Missions.
The Committee on Schools and Colleges submitted its
report, which was adopted together with the reports from
Queens College, and Davidson College in conection with
which Dr. W. H. Frazer, President of Queens College was
heard in the interest of that school.
To the Presbytery of Mecklenburg :
As chairman of your Committee on Schools and Colleges I beg leave
to report as follows :
All the schools with which the Presbytery is officially connected are
full to overflowing, and perhaps, with the exception of Union Seminary,
have had to turn away scores of applicants. While conditions are
highly encouraging and gratifying, it lays upon our Church a respon-
sibility that it could meet and ought to meet, but there seems to be no
prospect of its so doing. The educational needs of those who are turned
away are just as important as of those who have obtained entrance into
our schools, and the Church will lose in the future from its failure to
meet these demands far more than we can estimate.
Davidson College should be greatly enlarged to meet the growing
demands, or another similar institution for men begun, perhaps as a junior
college, but with a view to having its standard raised in the future.
Queens College, though gratifyingly successful in its canvass for
funds, is still in need of additional endowment and equipment.
Our school at Albemarle is struggling against a want of equipment
that is not creditable to our denomination.
The income of Union Seminary is inadequate to meet the expenses
consequent upon the increase in the number of students, and the capacity
of the Assembly's Training School could be doubled without being too
large to meet the demands of the Church.
These conditions call urgently for earnest prayer in behalf of this
cause and for greater faithfulness in its support.
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Attached to this report is a communication from the President of
the Board of Trustees of Queens College, that calls for most earnest
consideration.
It may appear a small matter in comparison with the income neces-
sary for the support of our schools, but their continued ability to main-
tain their A-grade standard may depend on a small margin. Pastors, sup-
plies and church treasurers are urged to see that this cause shall receive
the full quota of the budget for benevolences, and that the funds for
this cause be sent to Mr. F. L. Jackson to be distributed by him in the
proportions ordered by Synod, instead of being sent to the Presbyterial
treasurer.
Attention is called to the action of Synod's increasing the percentage
assigned to the junior colleges and to the secondary schools.
W. R. COPPEDGE, Chairman.
REPORT OF QUEENS COLLEGE
Dear Brethren:
As President of the Board of Trustees of Queens College, I desire to
give you an account of the institution as to its opening and the prospect
for the current session.
There have been enrolled to date 324 students, 163 of whom are
boarders and 161 of whom are day pupils. The strictest standards have
been adhered to in the reception of these students. Some were turned
away because they could not meet the entrance requirements, and others
were turned away because of a lack of dormitory facilities. The largest
number in the history of the institution was enrolled at the opening of
college, and only two or three have hitherto withdrawn, which is also a
unique experience.
The college is manned by 29 teachers, and the total faculty pay roll
in actual cash outlay is $50,850. Adding the expense of board and room
the pay roll will run to about $63,000. All teachers are well equipped for
their tasks and have been selected with a view to their soundness in the
faith and their spiritual life, as well as from the standpoint of their
scholarship.
The financial prospect for the current session is as follows :
Old accounts $ 2,627.00
New accounts 94,890.00
Income from other sources 10,000.00
$107,517.00
Scholarships and discounts $ 10,000.00
Faculty pay roll 50,850.00
Approximate expense for 9 months 40,000.00
Surplus 6,667.00
$107,517.00
We have collected on the above $21,060.00 and have cash in bank at
present, $11,677.16. We have collected on Endowment, $85,271.76, and
every bit of it, excepting the actual expense of raising and collecting
endowment, has been invested by the investing committee and is yielding
now an income at the rate of 6 per cent.
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The greatest need of the institution at present, so far as physical
equipment is concerned, is a combination dining room and dormitory, and
we believe that it will be wisdom to secure such a building for the insti-
tution before the opening of next session. Another need is increase in
endowment. If these two needs can be promptly met, the future of your
institution is exceedingly bright.
The department of Bible and Religious Education has been enlarged
and now commands the full time of Dr. Charles W. Somerville, and
part time of Dr. George Fisher Bell, and is doing a very helpful and a
very creditable work.
Respectfully submitted,
A. A. McGEACHY,
President Board of Trustees.
REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF DAVIDSON COLLEGE
Your Stated Clerk has called our attention to an item on your regular
docket, providing for report of Trustees of Colleges.
In compliance with this suggestion, permit us to say that your rep-
resentatives on the Board of Trustees of Davidson College do attend the
meeting of said board regularly, and we believe the college to be operated
in the highest state of efficiency, and that it has in attendance a body of
students which will compare favorably with that of any institution of
which we have knowledge.
One of your Trustees, R. A. Dunn, is Chairman of the Finance Com-
mittee, having in charge the investment of the college's permanent funds.
Another of your Trustees, H. N. Pharr, acts as attorney for the college ;
these Trustees being members of the Executive Committee and acting
more frequently on other committees, and are constantly in touch with
the college's business affairs.
Respectfully submitted,
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OR DAVIDSON
COLLEGE, ELECTED BY MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY.
The Committee of Assembly's Minutes, Rev. J. F. Ligon
and G. F. Bell, D.D., reported that nothing in those minutes
required our attention at this time.
Revs. J. R. Bridges, D.D., and J. G. Garth were heard in
the interest of the Presbyterian Standard.
The Judicial Committee made its report v^hich was
adopted as follows :
REPORT OF THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE
Your Committee respectfully reports that the only matter which has
come before it for consideration is the report to this Presbytery from the
Faculty of Union Theological Seminary concerning one of its students
from Mecklenburg Presbytery, who was recently charged in a court of
Chesterfield County, Va., with disorderly conduct, but was acquitted and
discharged upon a full disclosure of the facts. Later, when after investi-
gation by the Faculty of the Seminary, it was found that the charges
were not sustained, he was admonished "concerning his gross carelessness"
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and was reprimanded for a "lapse" from conduct becoming a Christian
minister.
After considering all the facts as presented in the Seminary's report
and the accompanying papers and strong testimonials of unblemished
character hitherto, your committee, while deploring the incident in the
career of this young man, is of the opinion that the whole circumstances
have been adequately and wisely dealt with by the Faculty of the Seminary
and that no further action in the premises is necessary, and therefore
recommends that the disposition of the matter made by the Seminary be
approved and concurred in, and that the thanks of this Presbytery be ex-
tended to the Faculty for its thorough-going investigation and report to
this body.
S. B. McLean, chairman,
J. M. WALKER,
W. B. BRADFORD,
Judicial Committee.
The request for one hour at the Spring Meeting of Pres-
bytery on second afternoon following election of commis-
sioners to General Assembly was granted to the Committee
on Religious Education.
The report of the Committee on Records of Presbytery
was submitted and adopted as follows :
Your committee have examined the records of Presbytery and find
satisfactory evidence that they have been carefully recorded and put in
printed form for preservation and circulation. And we further would say
that in our judgment the Presbytery made a wise choice in the selection of
Rev. J. G. Garth as successor to Rev. C. C. Anderson, who resigned as
Stated Clerk last spring.
Respectfully submitted,
G. C. HUNTINGTON.
J. O. STANCIL.
A. F. TIDDY.
Leave of Absence Committee reported that 19 memoers
of Presbytery had asked to be excused. A total of 76 at-
tended Presbytery.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON VACANCY AND SUPPLY
The committee's report was adopted as follows :
The General Assembly's Committee of Vacancy and Supply is ren-
dering efficient service to preachers and churches throughout our whole
territory. Because of the confidential nature of its work, it is impossi-
ble to give definite statistics of what it has been enabled to accomplish.
But we commend this branch of our church work to all who may be in
need of its services. Its functions may be defined, very briefly, in the
following letter from Dr. J. D. Leslie, Stated Clerk of the Assembly;
and we desire to incorporate it in our report.
To the Presbytery of Mecklenburg :
We wish to call your atention to the service we are trying to render
the Church through the Bureau of Vacancy and Supply. The Bureau is
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operating strictly along the lines outlined by the Assembly in its estab-
lishment. In the two years of its operation it has served over 300 min-
isters or 20 per cent of the active pastors and supplies. It has also served
about 275 churches. There have always been more ministers registered
than churches. Ministers are from every Synod in the Assembly. While
the churches listed are widely scattered over the Church, we are not
receiving replies from all the Chairmen of Presbyterial Committees on
Vacancy and Supply. Our letters of inquiry are not answered in every
case. Even if the Presbytery has no self-sustaining vacant churches, we
would be glad to have this information. We shall be glad to furnish
postage if necessary. Our experience has been that not a single church
has replied to our inquiries saying they did not desire our services. In
every instance they have thanked us and asked for a continuation of it.
Some churches are writing us direct for assistance.
May we not have your continued co-operation and assistance? If we
can serve you in any way, please write us.
Very cordially yours,
J. D. LESLIE, Stated Clerk.
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Presbytery's Committee of Vacancy and Supply has endeavored to
be of service in this direction. However, no minister asking a change
in his work, and no church seeking a pastor, has requested us to register
their names with Assembly's Committee.
Within the bounds of our Presbytery, in every case where there has
been a vacancy, we have proflfered our services ; and we have had the
privilege of serving on several occasions. We have received a great many
requests from ministers asking that their names be placed before vacant
churches ; and we have always done so, giving what information we had
to the pulpit committee.
It will be our pleasure to serve you to the best of our ability.
Respectfully submitted,
A. A. WALKER, for Committee.
The report of the Committee on Sabbath Observance and
Family Religion was adopted as follows :
1. That pastors and churches seize the opportunity of securing most
wholesome and inspiring literature at the headquarters of the Lord's Day
Alliance, at New York, and of Mr. R. E. Magill, Richmond, Va., and
that they call the attention of their people to this exceptional opportunity ;
especially the magazine the Lord's Day Leader, and a booklet for use in
family prayer, prepared by Mr. Magill.
2. That the annual offering for the Lord's Day Alliance ordered by
the General Assembly on the last Sabbath of October be taken.
CALLS AND SUPPLIES
Your Committee on Calls and Supplies respectfully submits the fol-
lowing report:
We recommend :
1. That Rev. M. E. Peabody be given permission to supply Newell's
Church until the next stated meeting of Presbytery.
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2. That the call from Rockingham Church for the pastoral services
of Rev. T. M. Stribling, at salary of $2,000 per year and manse, be found
in order and placed in his hands.
3. That the calls from Cornelius and Bethel Churches for the pas-
toral services of Rev. W. T. Smith, at salary of $500 per year, and $1,000
per year, respectively, be found in order, with the following exceptions :
The call from Cornelius does not include the name of the man for whose
services the call is made ; and the call from Bethel does not state that the
ones signing the call were authorized to do so by the congregation.
We recommend further that these corrections be made and the calls
placed in Brother Smith's hands.
4. That the call from West Avenue Church for the pastoral services
of Rev. P. W. Wilson be placed in the hands of the Stated Clerk of
Presbytery until Brother Wilson shall have been received into the
Presbytery.
5. That the call from Seversville Church for the pastoral services of
Rev. B. F. Yandell be placed in the hands of the Stated Clerk of the
Presbytery until Brother Yandell shall have been received into the
Presbytery.
6. That Dr. W. H. Frazer be given permission to supply Mallard
Creek until next stated meeting of Presbytery.
7. That Rev. A. S. Anderson be given permission to supply Badin
and Palestine Churches until next stated meeting of Presbytery.
8. That Licentiate T. F. Grier be given permission to supply Wax-
haw and Six-Mile Creek Churches until the Spring meeting of Presbytery.
C. H. ROWAN, Chairman.
Rev. T. M. Stribling accepted the call to the Rockingham
Church, and the following commission was appointed to install
him at date selected by the commission : Rev. Lynn R. Walker,
D.D., to preside, preach and propound the constitutional ques-
tions; Rev. W. R. Coppedge, D.D., to charge the pastor; Rev.
C. E. White to charge the congregation ; Ruling Elders J. E.
McLaughlin and A. N. Graham completing the commission.
Rev. W. H. Johnston accepted the call to Amity, and the
following were appointed a commission to install him : Rev.
A. S. Johnson, D.D., Rev. W. H. Frazer, D.D., Rev. L. W.
Brown, and Ruling Elder W. E. Price, the members to choose
their own parts and date.
Rev. W. T. Smith accepted the calls to Bethel and Cornelius
and the following commission was appointed to install him on
November 21st: Rev. J. W. Grier to preside, preach and pro-
pound the questions; Rev. R. S. Burwell to charge the pastor,
and Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine to charge the people.
Rev. A. H. Atkins, D.D., asked that his pastoral relation with
Unionville and Bethlehem be disolved, and on representation
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of the willingness of the church to this dissolution, by Rev. A.
A. Walker, Superintendent of Home Missions, the Presbytery
dissolved the relation.
The report of the Standing Committee of Presbyterial Home
Missions, which reviewed the report of the Executive Committee
on Home Misions, was adopted as follows :
REPORT OF STANDING COMMITTEE ON PRESBYTERIAL
HOME MISSIONS
Your Standing Committee on Presbyterial Home Missions to
which was referred the report of the Executive Committee would
respectfully report :
That the work in our judgment has been prosecuted with dili-
gence and an encouraging degree of success.
We would call special attention to the large number of profes-
sions of faith and additions to the Home Mission churches as a
result of the evangelistic meetings conducted by pastors and the
superintendent of Home Missions during the summer, and to the
many material improvements made upon church manse properties.
We recommend :
1. That adoption of the Executive Committee's report and the
recommendations and that they be published in Presbytery's min-
utes.
2. That special consideration by the Executive Committee be
given to the pledge made the Troy Church and that money be
secured if possible by the next stated meeting in order that the
Church may go forward with its building program.
3. That Presbytery approve the securing of a Permanent
Church and Manse Erection Fund of $25,000 to be loaned to weak
churches at a low rate of interest to help them in their building
programs and the method of raising the Fund be left to the Exec-
utive Committee.
Respectfully submitted,
LYNN R. WALKER, Chairman.
VANCE SYKES.
C. B. GRIER.
J. P. SAMPLE, Committee.
REPORT OF PRESBYTERY'S EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF
HOME MISSIONS TO MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
AT BANK'S CHURCH, OCTOBER 26, 1926
Your Committee of Home Missions would submit the following
report upon the work under its care for the first six months of this
year. While there are no outstanding achievements to which we
may point as peculiarly marking this period of our work, still it has
been in the main a most busy summer with most of the men, and on
the whole they have been doing fine work. It has been a revival
season in the Home Mission fields and a great many have been
added to the Church as the report on Evangelism will show. It has
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been a period of re-adjustment in many fields owing to the changing
of pastors in some cases and difficult problems arising in others.
Our Superintendent has been busy aiding in the securing of men for
the vacant fields as they have arisen, and in helping both pastors
and people and solve their problems as they have been confronted
with them. We look for a great advance in the work as soon as all
these re-adjustments are made.
We now have under the care of this committee 47 churches, as
against 43 last year, Marks Creek, Morven, Lilesville, and Camden
having been added to the list. The last three formerly grouped
with Wadesboro have been formed into a new group, and they are
now seeking' a man for his whole time. We are asking that you
approve this grouping at this meeting of Presbytery. Counting the
six churches in the Ellerbe group as one group (these six churches
are served by a minister and a layman) these 47 churches are
grouped into 19 separate pastoral charges. In addition there are
some half-dozen mission points grouped with these charges. Just
now four fields are vacant: Candor, Biscoe, and Macedonia; Rober-
del, Brainard, Cameronian, and Marks Creek; Ellerbe, Mt. Carmel,
and Norman; Morven, Lilesville, and Camden.
Since our last stated meeting the Church at Candor has entered
its handsome new church building. The same is true with the
Cpiurch of the Plaza in Charlotte, and the Norman Church. All
these churches are to be congratulated for their elegant buildings.
It promises a new day for them and their work.
The Church at Troy has laid the foundation for their new build-
ing but there it stands, as it has stood for theses twelve months, a
constant reminder to us that we have not given them the prom-
ised help of $2,000 long over-due and without which they cannot
go forward. The Robinson manse will be completed as soon as the
$500 promised them by Synod is received. The Marshville Church
is planning at this time to build a manse to cost about $3,000. The
Wilmore Church with the consent of the Home Mission Committee
has sold their old church and bought a new lot further out on
Mint Street for $3,600. Here they are planning to erect a new
building to cost about $15,000.
The following congregations are in sore need of church build-
ings : Biscoe, Star, McLean Memorial, and Rourks Chapel. And
these need manses immediately : Marshville, Morven, Candor, and
Robinson. Churches in the Home Mission field that are carrying
heavy debts for their church buildings are : Candor, Marshville,
Ellerbe, Plaza, and Troy; for manses, Roberdel and Robinson.
The report of the Committee on Thanks submitted its
report and the report was adopted das follows :
RESOLUTION OF THANKS
The Presbytery of Mecklenburg, in session at Banks Church, is deeply
sensible of the many kindnesses shown by the good people of this church.
Our bodies as well as our spirits have been refreshed while in their midst.
Therefore be it resolved :
(1) That this Presbytery express its heartfelt hanks to the beloved
pastor and to the members of the church for the royal reception and gen-
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erous hospitality so graciously bestowed on us during our sojourn in their
midst.
(2) That this resolution be read from the pulpit at the next regular
service.
(Signed) L. W. BROWN.
The Albemarle First Church was selected as the place
for the Spring meeting of Presbytery, Tuesday, April 12,
1927.
Rev. C. G. Long, the Stated Clerk, and Elder J. A. Little
were appointed as Committee on Arrangements for Spring
meeting.
Rev. W. H. Frazer, D.D., was appointed to preach the
Presbyterial sermon at the Spring meeting on the subject,
"The Episcopal Authority of the Presbytery," or "Presby-
terian Law."
An adjourned meeting was set for December 6th at
Charlotte, First Church, at 2 p. m.
Roll call was dispensed with and after the reading and
approval of the Minutes Presbytery adjourned with the
singing of a hymn and prayer.
R. J. McILWAINE, Moderator.
J. W. STORK, Permanent Qerk.
C. G. LONG, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
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ADJOURNED MEETING
Charlotte, N. C, July 5, 1926
Mecklenburg Presbytery met pursuant to adjournment,
at 2 p. m., July 5th, at First Church, Charlotte. The Mod-
erator, Rev. Q. N. Huneycutt, Th.D., presided and asked
Rev. W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., to open the Presbytery w^ith
prayer. Rev. S. B. McLean was chosen as Temporary Clerk.
Roll
Ministers: Q. N. Huneycutt, Moderator; J. G. Garth,
Stated Clerk ; S. B. McLean, Temporary Clerk ; W. R. Cop-
pedge, C. W. Somerville, R. J. Mcllv^aine, W. B. Mcllwaine,
Jr., H. E. Gurney, W. S. Hamiter, S. A. Ewart, J. C. Mc-
Geehee, B. B. Shankel, A. A. Walker, C. H. Little, J. F.
Ligon, G. C. Huntington, W. C Underwood, J. M. Walker,
C. H. Little, J. F. Ligon, J. M. Walker, L. W. Brown.
Ruling Elders: M. E. Trotter, Plaza; O. W. Potts,
Banks ; G. A. Todd, Paw Creek ; T. F. Black, Sharon ; W. A.
Jamison, West Avenue ; M. W. Woodside, Caldwell Memo-
rial ; R. J. Belk, Waxhaw; J. W. Pharr, Second Church; F.
S. Neal, Sugar Creek.
Rev. C. H. Rowan was received from Fayetteville Pres-
bytery, after the usual examination, and calls for his serv-
ices as pastor were read from Paw Creek Church, at a salary
of $1,800 and the manse, and from Cook's Memorial Church
at a salary of $600 per annum, both salaries payable quar-
terly. Mr. Rowan accepted the calls. The committee to
install him was appointed as follows : Rev. J. G. Garth, to
preside, preach and propound the constitutional questions,
at Paw Creek Church on July 18th, at 11 a. m.. Ruling Elder
W. E. Price to charge the pastor, and Rev. J. M. Walker to
charge the people. The service at Cook's Memorial to be
at 3 p. m., with Rev. J. G. Garth presiding and assigning the
parts to all participants.
Rockingham Church was granted permission to prose-
cute a call for the pastoral services of Rev. T. M. Stribling,
before Augusta Presbytery.
Caldwell Memorial Church asked permission to change
the terms of its call for the services of Rev. G. F. Bell, D.D.,
to $3,600, which was granted.
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Rev. B. F. Yandedll, of Asheville Presbytery, was invited
to sit as a visiting brother.
The following commissioners to the General Assembly
at Pensacola in May, 1926, reported attendance on the meet-
ings and were commended for their diligence : Revs. J. F.
Ligon and R. J. Mcllwaine, Ruling Elders, M. W. Woodside
and F. S. Neal.
At the request of certain members, conveyed to Presby-
tery by the session of the church at Sharon, a committee
was appointed to inquire into the state of religion in that
church. The committee is as follows : Rev. G. F. Bell, D.D.,
chairman. Rev. J. F. Ligon and Ruling Elder F. S. Neal.
The committee is to report its finding to Presbytery.
At the request of Mark's Creek Church, the minutes and
roll of Presbytery were amended to note that Rev. W. R.
Coppedge, D.D., is pastor emeritus of that congregation.
The resolution was adopted at the request of the session
of Pegram StSreet Church :
Whereas, the title of Pegram Street Church building, located at the
corner of Pegram Street and St. George Street, Charlotte, N. C, is
vested in the trustees of Presbytery, according to the records of Mecklen-
burg County, Register of Deeds ofifice.
Whereas, the Session of Pegram Street Church has requested
through the representative appointed for the purpose, Mr. M. E, Trotter,
that he aforesaid property be legally transferred to the trustees of the
church.
Be it resolved. That this request be granted and the trustees of
Mecklenburg Presbytery are hereby instructed to formally transfer the
title of the property aforesaid to the trustees of Pegram Street Church,
namely, J. B. Caddell, W. B. Blount, T. E. Wingate, giving them a war-
ranty deed in fee simple.
Rev. S. B. McLean was elected Secretary of Steward-
ship for the Presbytery.
The standing rule was set aside, and Presbytery ad-
journed to meet at the First Church, Charlotte, at 2 p. m.,
on Monday, September 6, 1926.
The minutes were read and approved and Presbytery ad-
journed with prayer by Rev. C. H. Little.
Q. N. HUNEYCUTT, Moderator.
S. B. McLEAN, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
32 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
ADJOURNED MEETING
First Church, Charlotte, Sept. 6, 1926.
Mecklenburg- Presbytery met in adjourned session in the
First Church, Charlotte, N. C, September 6, 1926, at 2 p. m.
The following" were present :
Ministers: Q. N. Huneycutt, J. G. Garth, S. B. Lyerly,
W. T. Smith, A. A. Walker, J. W. Grier, J. F. Ligon, A. S.
Johnson, J. C. McGehee, A. H. Atkins, R. W. Culbertson, C.
W. Somerville, S. B. McLean, C. C. Beam, C. H. Rowan,
W. B. S. Chandler, C. E. White, W. H. Johnston, W. S.
Hamiter, H. E. Gurney, J. M. Walker, W. H. Frazer, L E.
Wallace, C. H. Little, G. C. Huntington, R. J. Mcllwaine,
W. B. Mcllwaine, L. W. Brown, T. F. Huneycutt, B. B.
Shankel, W. C. Underwood. — 31.
Elders: C B. Cross, Robinson; M. W, Woodside, Cald-
well Memorial ; F. S. Neal, Sugaw Creek; W. H. Belk, Mon-
roe ; J. W. Pharr, Second Church, Charlotte ; W. L. Summer-
ville, Thomasboro ; J. N. Lee, Philadelphia ; R. O. Robinson,
Seversville ; O. W. Potts, Banks ; W. C. Barnett, Pineville ;
John Kuck, Amity; J. A. Mclntyre, EUerbe.— 12.
Rev. C. E. White opened the mee'ting with the prayer at
the call of the Moderator, Rev. Q. N. Huneycutt, Th.D., and
Rev. S. B. Lyerly was elected Temporary Clerk.
Rev. J. G. Garth asked for the dissolution of his pastor-
ate with the Seversville and Thomasboro churches that he
might become a member of the staff of the church paper,
the Presbyterian Standard. After the churches were heard
from by their representatives, the request was granted.
Rev. C. E. White and Rev. W. H. Frazer, D.D., reported
their attendance on the General Assembly. Their reports
were received and their diligence commended.
The report of the committee on the status of the Stanley
Hall property was received and adopted, the committee to
be continued till they report the deeds conveying the prop-
erty have been recorded. The report is as follows :
To the Presbytery of Mecklenburg, meeting in adjourned session at First
Church, Charlotte, N. C, Sept. 6, 1926:
The Trustees of Stanley Hall respectfully make report to the Pres-
bytery that, pursuant to the order of Presbytery, made at its 112th Stated
Session, held at Thomasboro, in September, 1925, as appears on page 6
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 33
of the minutes of said session, a deed of conveyance was duly prepared
and executed by said Trustees of Stanley Hall conveying to the Trustees
of Mecklenburg Presbytery the property and rights described in and
referred to in said minutes, and which they were directed to convey to the
Trustees of the Presbytery, and that such deed, duly signed and probated,
was delivered to Mr. W. H. Belk, one of the Trustees of the Presbytery,
some months since.
Respectfully submitted,
S. B. McLEAN,
For the Committee.
Rev. S. B. McLean asked to be excused from the sub-
committee of the Religious Education Committee, namely,
that of Sunday School Extension, which was granted, the
place to be filled by the nominating committee at the reg-
ular fall meeting. The resignation was accepted.
Thomas F. Wallace, a member of Plaza Presbyterian
Church, appeared as an applicant for reception for the min-
istry. After his testimonials were read, and an examination
on piety and motives for seeking the ministry, Mr. Wallace
was accepted as a candidate, and commended to the commit-
tee of Education for the ministry. A charge was delivered
by Rev. W. B. Mcllwaine, and the Presbytery was led in
prayer by Rev. A. S. Johnson, D.D., in behalf of the young
man.
Rev. W. T. Smith requested that his pastoral relation
with Cameronian, Roberdell, and Brainerd churches be dis-
solved. After hearing messages from the churches con-
curring with the pastor, the request was granted. Mr. Smith
was given permission to supply the churches of Bethel and
Cornelius.
Rev. W. H. Johnston asked to be permitted to return the
calls of the Ellerbe, Mt. Carmel, and Norman churches,
which request was granted. A call for Mr. Johnston's serv-
ices to Amity, Church, at $2,000 per year and the use of a
manse was found in order and placed in his hands. He ac-
cepted the call, but asked to defer the arrangements for the
installation till later, which request was granted.
The special committee appointed to bind the minutes of
Presbytery which were unbound, reported the work done,
and the committee asked, through its chairman, that it be
continued till further arrangements are made for the pre-
servation of the minutes. The report was received and the
committee continued. The minutes are at present in the
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office of the register of deed of Mecklenburg County, kept
in his fireproof vault.
After the reading of the minutes Presbytery adjourned
to meet September 20th, in First Church, Charlotte, at 2
p. m., which action was understood as a laying aside of the
standing rule to have only two adjourned meetings between
stated sessions.
Presbytery adjourned with prayer by the Moderator.
Q. N. HUNEYCUTT, Moderator.
S. B. LYERLY, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 35
ADJOURNED MEETING
First Church, Charlotte, Sept., 20, 1926.
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in adjourned session at the
First Church, Charlotte, N. C, on Monday, September 20,
1926, at 2 p. m.
The following were present :
Ministers: Q. N. Huneycutt, J. G. Garth, R. S. Burwell,
A. A. Walker, W. H. Frazer, R. W. Culbertson, L. W.
Brown, W. H. Johnston, W. C. Underwood, J. R. Bridges,
A. A. McGeachy, H. E. Gurnev, W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., R. J.
Mcllwaine, J. W. Stork, C. H. Rowan, J. W. Grier, C. H.
Little, S. A. Ewart, G. C. Huntington, J. M. Walker, C C
Beam, J. C. McGehee, J. F. Ligon, A. S. Johnson, G. F. Bell,
W. T. Smith, M. E. Peabody.
Ruling Elders: J. W. Pharr, Second Church, Charlotte;
N. O. Alexander, Matthews; T. F. Black, Sharon; E. J.
Simms, Rehoboth ; H. S. Alexander, Providence ; W. A.
Jamison, West Avenue ; M. W. Wodsides, Caldwell Memo-
rial.
The meeting was opened with prayer by Rev. R. S. Bur-
well. Rev. H. C. Carmichael, of Concord Presbytery, and
Rev. H. W. McLaughlin, D.D., of Lexington Presbytery,
were invited to sit as visiting brethren.
The Stated Clerk asked permission to fill out the blank
report for Synod and submit it as from Presbytery, which
was granted.
The committee appointed to inquire into the state of
religion at Sharon Church reported, and after full discus-
sion, the report was adopted as read. The report is as
follows :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE TO INQUIRE INTO THE STATE OF
RELIGION IN SHARON CHURCH
Saturday, September 4th, as soon after the vacation season as was
feasible, the two acting members of this committee went to Sharon
Church and spent practically the entire day in careful and sympathetic
conference with both parties to the controversy there. After reviewing
the information thus secured we prepared our report to Presbytery and
returned to Sharon Thursday, September i6th, for further conference
and prayer, submitting our report to the consideration of both parties, and
revising it. We now offer it to Presbytery, having done our best to be
fair and impartial, and praying earnestly that we may be used to heal the
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breach and foster the future unity and fruitfulness of this old, honored
and well beloved congregation.
We found a serious division existing between the session of the
church and the old board of deacons and their sympathizers. This con-
troversy arose over differences of rather small importance, but increased
with time and discussion till the board of deacons had resigned and a new
one had been elected in their place, and strong feeling had been engen-
dered on both sides to the dispute. One of the elders has also resigned.
As in almost all such cases, we believe that there is merit and demerit on
both sides. Honest mistakes have been made, out of the heat of contro-
versy unfortunate remarks have issued and have been repeated, misunder-
standings have arisen, the significance of actions and remarks has been
magnified, and an atmosphere of resentment and suspicion has been en-
gendered in which things said or done by one party have been construed in
their worst light and as of undue consequence by the other. All this has
been as unfortunate as it has been natural and human. Beneath it all are
issues of real importance.
Both sides dealt with us most courteously, and we were distinctly
impressed that both are honest men who love their Lord and their Church
sincerely. Despite the tensity of feeling that exists, we earnestly hope
and believe that Christian men and women who have so much in common
will make mutual concessions, cease harboring and discussing differences
and errors, accept correction in a Christian spirit, construe all their
grievances charitably and try to forget them, and prayerfully unite in a
loving and whole-hearted effort to carry forward under God the highest
interests of old Sharon Church, dear as it is to all of them.
With respect to the turning over to Sharon Church the title to the
community house now held by the county, though the building stands on
church land, we would modestly and lovingly suggest that the contention
that the County Board of Commissioners should be asked to afford any
in the township opportunity to object to such action before the title to
this community property is turned over to Sharon Church, be acceded to,
irrespective of whether or not this precise degree of prudence is actually
considered necessary.
In the matter of the election of legal trustees to hold title to church
property, we believe this to have been most desirable, regardless of what
had or had not been done in the past. It may be that the board of deacons
were made to feel a closeness of supervision over them and a degree of
distrust and criticism toward them which naturally aroused their feelings.
We fear that the session approached the deacons on this matter with a
lack of tact. But we believe that the deacons were unduly sensitive in
considering the election of others than themselves as trustees as in itself
a reflection upon their integrity, even though they had been acting as
trustees informally for many years, and unwise in seriously objecting to it
and in resigning their offices because of it. We believe that the propo-
sition finally carried through March 28th, to elect three trustees, one
elder, one deacon, and one private matter, was not intrinsically bad.
In the election of these trustees, six, two of each class, were nomi-
nated by the session ; and it is agreed by all that the congregation were
duly informed that they might make other nominations. It is also agreed
that they were not specifically told that the trustees did not have to consist
of one elder, one deacon, and one private member, just because the
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session had proposed it; and some have gained the impression that the
session were dictatorial in this respect. We do not believe that the session
intended to be, rather, that failure to make this option of the congregation
plain was an oversight. The rights of the congregation might easily
have been inferred from a general knowledge of elemental church law, the
recommendation of the session challenged, and different action proposed.
This was not done. Therefore we think it best and for the peaceful in-
terests of the church that this election should stand.
There has been disagreement with respect to the degree of authority
exercised by the board of deacons. Our Book specifically provides that
the deacons shall have the care of the church property, not that they shall
hold the title to it or be free to dispose of it. It also provides that "In
matters of special importance affecting the property of the church they
can not take final action without the consent of the congregation." Also
that "In the discharge of their duties the deacons are under the super-
vision and authority of the session." Certamly that supervision should
be exercised with respect and tact. And "matters of special importance"
is a relative term susceptible of variable interpretation and in practice
variously interpreted by different congregations in proportion to their size
and the amount of property and funds administered. It is impossible for
outsiders to say just what policy should prevail in a given case in a local
situation.
In general, we think a session and congregation should trust a board
of deacons and appreciate their labor of love, and not be too quick to
take exception to their administration ; on the other hand, that a board of
deacons should be forward to consult the session and congregation when-
ever they have the least doubt of their authority or of the acceptability
of their proposed action. Such overlapping of mutual consideration, we
are persuaded, will make for harmony and good feeling.
In this connection it might be said that, while the deacons feel that
they have been ignored and belittled and the session feel that their au-
thority has been flaunted, we believe it would have cheered the deacons to
hear the unanimity with which the session expressed their unbounded
confidence to an almost all-inclusive extent in the old board of deacons,
and that any lack of consultation and co-operation on the part of the
deacons has been due to ruffled feelings or to misguidance rather than to
any fundamental lack of respect.
After the controversy had grown warm the deacons presented a
(paper one Sunday morning, which was read from the pulpit and immedi-
ately after service discussed by the congregation. A motion was then
made and carried to call a congregational meeting two weeks later to dis-
cuss this paper and the matters at issue. The deacons except to the fact
that this meeting was never held. The meeting in which this motion was
carried was purely informal, was not an officially called congregational
meeting, and had no authority. The announcement of a congregational
meeting on the basis of this action was premature. It might seem that
the session should have called the congregational meeting for two weeks
later, seeing that the people evidently expected it. On the other hand, they
may very well have felt that throwing this dispute into the open congre-
gation for discussion would have served only to widen the breach and to
make bad matters worse. One thing is clear : the session are under com-
pulsion to call a congregational meeting only on the written request of
one-fourth of the communicant members. As no such request was before
them, no official complaint can hold against them in this matter.
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March 11th — The session suspended from the exercise of office
Deacon W. R. Lee on grounds which convinced them that such action
should be taken. They appear to have beHeved that they could do this
without bringing against this brother formal charges. But it is clear to
your committee that this was a sentence passed upon this official without
first citing him to appear and defend himself against formal charges in
direct violation of our Book, paragraphs 194 and 195. We believe that
the session seriously erred here and therefore formally recommend to
Presbytery that this verdict be herewith set aside. As Mr. Lee subse-
quently resigned his office and the resignation was accepted by the session,
this leaves his status, along with the other old deacons, that of a private
member.
On May 23rd, at a regularly called congregational meeting, four new
deacons were elected. On the morning of their ordination and installation,
May 30th, a protest against the validity of their election, signed by 44
members of the church, was handed the pastor, Mr. Little, after service
had started, when it was too late for it to be considered. It seems that
two of the old deacons, after Sunday School that morning, had asked the
pastor and one or two of the elders if there was to be a session meeting
before church, saying that they had a matter of business to present. They
were told that there probably would be such a meeting, and that they would
be informed. But the meeting was not held. It appears, however, that
almost immediately the bell-ringer called the congregation to service, the
hour having arrived, so that there was no opportunity for a meeting of
the session. We do not know whether the session were as considerate in
this matter as in all the circumstances they might have been expected to be
or not. But we are confident that a matter of such vital importance should
have been presented to them earlier, that there might have been time to
consider and act upon it before the eleventh hour.
When these four new deacons were elected, a motion to proceed to
such election was made and the tellers declared the vote to be a tie, 41 to
41. The pastor, moderating the meeting, then broke the tie by voting to
proceed. In connection with the protest to which reference has just been
made, affidavits were offered to the effect that four others counted the
vote and believe that the motion was lost 41 to 47. Objection has also
been made to the youthfulness of the tellers appointed for an occasion so
critical. We believe that the pastor had no wrong intent whatever in this
matter. But we believe that it was inexpedient for him to break the tie,
that he should rather have declined to vote and declared the motion to have
been lost. We believe further that it was illegal for him to cast this de-
ciding vote. Those passages in our Book which give a moderator this
right refer to the action of a court of the church, of which body the mod-
erator is necessarily a member. In a congregational meeting, on the other
hand, it is specifically stated that the communing members of the par-
ticular church only are entitled to vote. An ordained minister, be he the
pastor or a visitor, is not a member of the particular church, but of the
Presb)^ery only. It seems to us very clear, therefore, that he has no
vote in the congregational meeting. That he should have we believe in-
trinsically undesirable. In view of all these considerations — the youthful
inexperience of the tellers, the serious dispute in the congregation over
the result of the vote to proceed to an election, the inexpediency and
illegality of the pastor's casting the deciding vote — and earnestly believing
that such action will be for the future peace and welfare of Sharon
Church, we recommend to Presbytery, without prejudice to any of the
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parties involved, that this election and subsequent ordination and installa-
tion be herewith declared null and void, and that Sharon Church be de-
clared to be without a board of deacons in fact.
When a meeting of this congregation shall be held to elect deacons,
we believe that it will be for the peace and harmony of the church for it
to be distinctly stated that, whatever number of deacons it be proposed to
elect, the congregation has the full right to decide for itself how many
shall be elected ; for the nominations to be made by secret ballot without
the proposal of names from the floor, suitable provision being made to
drop those who receive only a scattering vote ; for the congregation to
enter upon this election only after careful instruction as to the duties and
qualifications for this office, and earnest prayer for divine guidance ; and
that for prudential reasons a minister, and some minister other than the
pastor of the church, should in all the circumstances moderate this
meeting.
This report has been made somewhat lengthy in view of the critical
situation and our earnest desire, if possible, to be both clear and helpful.
We offer it to Presbytery in the prayerful hope that we may have been
able to render constructive service. If adopted by Presbytery, we hope
that all the brethren of Sharon will accede to it with mutual and charitable
concessions, in the spirit of love and humility, and with an eye single to
the glory of God and the highest welfare of old Sharon.
In conclusion we recommend that the formal recommendations of this
report, if adopted, be understood to be the official action of Presbytery
and mandatory upon the Sharon session and congregation ; that the ex-
pressions of belief and the suggestions of this report, if adopted, be under-
stood to be the frank opinion and friendly counsel of Presbytery,
G. F. BELL,
F. S. NEAL,
Committee.
Revs. A. A. McGeachy, D.D., A. S. Johnson, D.D., and
W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., requested that their votes against the
adoption of the report might be recorded.
The Stated Clerk, Rev. J. G. Garth, was appointed by
Presbytery to visit Sharon Church, and inform them offi-
cially of the action of Presbytery.
The minutes were read and approved, and Presbytery
adjourned to meet at Banks Church, October 26, at 10 a. m.
Q. N. HUNEYCUTT, Moderator.
J. W. STORK, Permanent Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
Report of Every Member Canvas., Per Capita Conlribulion. «
Benevolences and Benevolent Askings for Year
■ April 1, 1927
(Continued from inside front cover)
14. Men's Work— P. S. Gilchrist, C P. Brown, H. J. Spencer, J. M.
Oldham, J. P. Marsh, M. E. Trotter, J. M. Harris.
15. Sessional Records— A. H. Atkins, R. S. Burwell, R. W. Culbert-
son, Q. N. Huneycutt, W. T. Smith, and five Elders.
16. Examinations:
(i) Experimental Piety — The Moderator.
(2) Academic Studies — R. W. Culbertson.
(3) Languages — Latin Thesis and Greek Exegesis — C. W. Somer-
ville, J. W. Grier.
(4) Natural and Exact Sciences — H. E. Gurney, C. H. Little.
(5) Mental and Moral Philosophy^ Logic and Rhetoric — W. H.
Frazer, W. B. S. Chandler.
(6) Theology — A. S. Johnson, A. A. McGeachy, W. R. Coppedge.
(7) Church History— G. F. Bell, J. M. Walker.
(8) Church Government and Sacraments — M. E. Peabody, R. S.
Burwell.
TRUSTEES OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
1. Davidson — R. A. Dunn, H. N. Pharr— terms expire 1928; A. A.
McGeachy, J. W. Pharr, W. H. Belk — terms expire 1927.
2. Queens— A. A. McGeachy, T. M. Glasgow, J. L. Choate, P. S.
Gilchrist — terms expire 1928; J. Arthur Henderson, E. E. Jones,
A. J. Crowell — terms expire 1929; E. A. McCausland, J. W. Mc-
Clung, Hunter Marshall — terms expire 1927.
3. Albemarle — M. J. Harris, A. C. Honeycutt, A. E. McCausland —
terms expire 1928; R. J. Mcllwaine, F. S. Neal, W. H. Belk — ■
terms expire 1929; J. M. Harry, J. W. Stork, J. H. McCrae, Jno.
McDowell, J. M. Morrow — terms expire 1927.
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PRESBYTERY
115th Stated Session, Albemarle, N. C.
April 12-14, 1927
Adjourned Meeting . . . . Charlotte, N. C, December 6, 1926
Adjourned Meeting Charlotte, N. C, January 3, 1927
Adjourned Meeting Sharon Church, January 20, 1927
Called Meeting , Charlotte, N. C, February 7, 1927
Adjourned Meeting Charlotte, N. C, March 7, 1927
Next Stated Meeting . St. Paul's, Charlotte, N. C, 10 A. M,, Oct. 11, 1927
DIRECTORY
Rev. Lynn R. Walker, D.D Hamlet, N. C
Rev. J. G Garth, Stated Clerk Charlotte, N C.
Rev. J. W. Stork, Permanent Clerk Mt. Gilead, N. C.
W E. Price, Treasurer Home Missions Charlotte, N. C.
Trustees of Presbytery— W. H. Belk, H. C. Alexander, J. L. Choate.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Presbyter3r*s Home Missions — ^J. M. Walker, W. B. S. Chandler, C.
H. Little, C. H. Rowan, C. G. Long, Lynn R. Walker, F. C. Neal,
W. H. Belk, T. J. Smith, C P. Brown, W. E. Price, J. F. Ligon,
Dr. R. H. Lafferty.
PERMANENT COMMITTEES
1. Fordiffn Missions — ^W. B. Mcllwaine, J. W. Grier, W. L. Wallis,
J. Arthur Henderson, M. B. Spier.
2. Assembly's Home Missions — ^J. F. Ligon, C. H. Little, A. S.
Anderson, Jno. B. Ross.
3. Christian Education and Ministerial Relief — J. W. Grier, L. W.
Brown, J. W. McClung.
4. Religrious Educationr-General Chairman: W. B. S. Chandler,
(i) Children's Division: W. M. Wilcox, W. E. Price, M. E.
Peabody.
(2) Young People's Division : J. G. Garth, W. W. Moore, F, H.
Bierman.
(3) Leadership Training: W. S. Hamiter, S. B. Lyerly, H. J.
Spencer.
(4) Sunday School Extension : S. A. Ewart, G. M. Beaty, Dr.
R. H. Lafferty.
5. Bible Cause— S. B. Lyerly, J. W. Stork.
6. Synod's Home Missions— L E. Wallace, B. B. Shankel, C H.
Caldwell, D. S. Monteith.
7. Orphans* Home — W. H. Johnston, R. W. Culbertson, Wm.
Anderson, W. A. Jamison.
8. Schools and College — ^J. R. Bridges, Beatty Faires, G. M. Rose, Jr.
9. Sabbath and Family Religion — R. J. Mcllwain, B. B. Shankel,
W. S. Hamiter, Thos. Spratt, Wm. Ross.
10. Evangelism— A. A. Walker, C. E. White, T. G. Hardie.
11. Men's and Women's Societies— L. R. Walker, W. C Underwood,
J. R. Irwin.
12. Auditing — J. F. Jamison, J. O. Thomas.
13. Stewardship— S. B. McLean, H. E. Gurney, W. H. Frazer, L. R.
Walker, W. E. Price, M. B. Spier, F. S. Neal, J. H. Wearn.
(Continued on back inside cover)
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PRESBYTERY
1 1 5th Stated Session, Albemarle, N. C.
April 12-14, 1927
Adjourned Meeting .... Charlotte, N. C, December 6, 1916
Adjourned Meeting Charlotte, N. C, January 3, 1927
Adjourned Meeting Sharon Church, January 20, 1927
Called Meeting Charlotte, N. C, February 7, 1927
Adjourned Meeting Charlotte, N. C, March 7, 1927
Next Stated Meeting . St. Paul's, Charlotte, N. C, 10 A. M., Oct. 11, 1927
STATED SPRING SESSION
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in the 115th Stated Session at
Albemarle, Tuesday evening, April 12, 1927, at 8 :00 p. m., and
was opened with a sermon by the Moderator, Rev. R. J. Mcll-
wain, from Jno. 10:10.
The communion was administered by the Moderator and
Rev. S. B. Lyerly.
Presbytery was constituted with prayer.
The roll was called and the following found present :
ROLL
Ministers: A. S. Anderson, L. W. Brown, J. R. Bridges,
R. S. Burwell, H. H. Cassady, W. B. S. Chandler, R. W. Cul-
bertson, J. A. Caligan, S. A. Ewart, W. H. Frazer, J. G. Garth,
H. E. Gurney, J. W. Grier, W. S. Hamiter, Q. N. Huneycutt,
T. F. Huneycutt, W. H. Johnston, J. F. Ligon, C. H. Little,
C. G. Long, S. B. Lyerly, A. A. McGeachv, J. C. McGehee,
S. B. McLean, R. J. Mcllwain, W. B. Mclfwaine, M. E. Pea-
body, C. H. Rowan, A. R. Shaw, W. T. Smith, C. W. Somer-
ville, J. W. Stork, T. M. Stribbling, W. C. Underwood, A. A.
Walker, J. M. Walker, Lynn R. Walker, I. E. Wallace, C. E.
White, P. W. Wilson, B. F. Yandell.
Ministers not present: C. C. Beam, R. H. M. Brown, R. T.
Coit, W. P. Chedester, G. C. Huntington, A. S. Johnson, R. S.
Latimer, J. W. Moore, (F. M.), W. W. Moore, W. C. Mc-
Laughlin (F. M.), J. A. McQueen, R. L. Patrick, L. H. Query,
M. E. Sentelle, B. B. Shankel, G. P. Stevens, (F. M.), A. H.
Temple.
Churches represented : Albemarle First, Dr. C. M. Lentz ;
Allen, J. L. Campbell; Amity, J. Wilson Miller; Badin, W. H.
Bradford; Banks, C. W. Potts; Bethany, A. M. Eubanks (Min-
eral Springs, R. 1) ; Bethel, H. G. Torrence (Davidson) ; Beth-
lehem, L D. Crowell (Matthews) ; Caldwell Memorial, E. G.
Cochrane; Cameronian, H. T. Baldwin (Rockingham) ; Carmel,
J. P. Sample ; Central Steele Creek, T. F. Grier ; Charlotte First,
McAlister Carson; Charlotte Second, Wm. Anderson; Cooks
Memorial, R. F. Rozzelle; Cornelius, J. I. Proctor; Ellerbe, J.
A. Mclntyre; Hamlet, Duncan McNair; Hopewell, T. W.
Stewart; Huntersville, J. L. Choate; Myers Park, J. T. Ward-
law; Mallard Creek, E. W. Christenberry (Harrisburg) ;
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Marshville, J. C. Smith; Marston, A. W. McKay; Matthews,
N. O. Alexander (Matthews) ; McGee, W. E. Kistler; Monroe
First, W. A. Henderson; Morgan Memorial, P. J. C. Efird
(Oakboro) ; Mt. Carmel, J. A. McDonald; Mt. Gilead, Jno. A.
McAulay; Mulberry, W. L. Shelby; Newell, C. L. Hurdle;
Norman, A. N. Cagle; Norwood, Dr. J. I. Campbell; Oakboro,
F. C. Efird ; Pageland, R. J. Dempster ; Paw Creek, W. R. Sad-
dler; Peachland, T. V. Howell; Plaza, W. B. Blount; Philadel-
phia, C. S. Harkey; Pineville, J. M. Carothers; Polkton, Dr.
J. M. Boyce; Porter, W. H. Simpson; Providence, H. Q. Alex-
ander ; Ramah, W. M. Bradford ; Rockingham, J. F. Stevenson ;
Seversville, Guy M. Beaty (Charlotte) ; Sharon, W. F. Baker;
Siler, W. C. Davis (R. D., Matthews) ; Steele Creek, C. F.
Brown; St. Paul, J. D. Woodside; Sugaw Creek, F. S. Neal;
Tenth Avenue, W. L. Wallis; Thomasboro, W. L. Summerville;
Wadesboro, J. A. McRae; Walkersville, A. B. Norwood; West
Avenue, R. L. Smith; Westminster, D. M. Monteith; Williams
Memorial, W. J. Williams ; Wilmoore, N. J. Philips.
Rev. Lynn R. Walker, D.D., was elected Moderator by
acclamation.
Rev. Q. N. Huneycutt, Th.D., was elected temporary clerk.
The Committee on Orders report was adopted.
The Committee on Foreign Missions asked for an order to
be set at 11 a. m. Wednesday.
All requests for special orders for this session were ordered
referred to the Committee on Orders.
Rev. E. M. Brooks, of the Albemarle Association of the
Baptist Church, was introduced and invited to sit as a visiting
brother.
Rev. W. T. Smith was appointed acting chairman for this
meeting of the Committee on Men's and Women's Societies.
Presbytery adjourned until 9:00 a. m. , with praver by
Dr. J. R.' Bridges.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13
Presbytery met at 9:00 a. m. Devotional exercises were
conducted by Rev. T. M. Stribling.
Minutes of last night's session were read and approved.
The following Standing Committees were appointed by the
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Moderator :
Devotional Exercises: Rev. C. G. Long, Dr. C. M. Lentz.
Bills and Overtures: Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine, R. W. Cul-
berson, Rev. C. H. Rowan, Dr. J. M. Boyce, Duncan McNair.
Men and Women's Societies: Rev. W. T. Smith, Rev. T.
M. Stribling, Elder J. A. Mclntyre, W. L. Wallis.
Judicial— Rev. J. F. Ligon, Dr. J. R. Bridges, Dr. C. M.
Lentz, Jno. A. McAulay, C. F. Brown.
Presbytery's Home Missions: Rev. W. H. Johnston,
Rev. M. E. Peabody, E. G. Cochrane, A. B. Norwood, D. M.
Monteith.
Calls and Supplies: Rev. C. G. Long, Rev. J. A. Caligan,
O. W. Potts.
Records of Presbytery: Rev. T. F. Huneycutt, J. F.
Stevenson.
Leave of Absence: F. S. Neal, C. W. Davis.
Minutes of Synod: Rev. C. H. Little.
Thanks: Rev. W. B. S. Chandler, R. L. Smith.
Sessional Records: Rev. L E. Wallace, Rev. B. F. Yan-
dell. Rev. P. W. Wilson, W. H. Bradford, W. A. Henderson,
C. L. Hurdle, W. F. Baker, N. J. Phillips.
A call from Candor for the pastoral services of Rev. A. L.
McDuffie was referred on Committee on Calls and Supplies.
A call from Thomasboro for the pastoral services off W. H.
Mattheson was referred to the Committee on Calls ond Supplies.
The request of Mallard Creek that Rev. W. H. Frazer, D.D.,
be allowed to supply that church until fall meeting of Presby-
tery, was referred to Committee on Calls and Supplies.
The request of Williams Memorial Church for the services
of Dr. A. R. Shaw as supply was referred to Committee on
Calls and Supplies.
Calls from Oakboro, Locust and Morgan's Memorial for the
pastoral services of Rev. T. F. Huneycutt were referred to the
Committee on Calls and Supplies.
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A request from Wilmoore Church for permission toi change
the terms of their call for its pastor, Rev. S. B. McLean, was
referred to Committee on Calls and Supplies.
A nominating committee was appointed, toi consist of the
Moderator, Stated Clerk, and Rev. R. J. Mcllwain.
Mr. Waldo Emerson Love, of Ellerbe, N. C, presented an
application to be received under care of Presbytery, as a Candi-
date for the Gospel Ministry. After the usual examination, and
charge by Dr. A. A. McGeachy, he was enrolled as a candidate.
A request from St. Paul's Church to increase the salary of
the pastor. Rev. S. B. Lyerly, was referred to Committee on
Calls and Supplies.
The following report of Committee on Evangelism was
adopted :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON EVANGELISM
Evangelism has always been an important factor in the development
and growth of the Christian Church, The spirit of revival characterized
the first years of the Church, when the disciples sought to carry out the
injunction of our Lord to bear witness unto Him; and the Church has
made its greatest progress when she devoted herself to evangelismi. And
evangelism- is the life of the Church today; the Church that fails in this
important function is likely to fail all.
Your committee believes that the intent of Presbytery is expressed
in a constant urging upon the churches to develop the gift of evangelism.
The spiritual value of this work cannot be over-estimated; and, as a
general rule there ought to be a series of evangelistic meetings held in
every church, at least once a year.
Owing to the many vacancies in the field under the direction of your
committee, fewer meetings have been held during the year just closed
than in the preceding year. Notwithstanding, the Lord has graciously
blessed the work to the edification of the church, and in the saving of
souls. There were 250 conversions ; there were added to our Church 175
by profession, and 75 by letter.
The policy of the committee is that the responsibility for the arrang-
ing of meetings rests with the churches where the meetings are to be
held ; but we believe it would be a gracious act on the part of the preacher,
when the church to which he is assigned has no pastor, to take the
initiative, and communicate with the officers of the church, who, in many
cases, do not know their privileges and responsibilities. Your committee
holds itself in readiness to render any service in bringing church and
preacher together.
We are grateful to the preachers who have rendered such splendid
service in these meetings ; and to the churches who gave the time of their
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pastors. And we feel assured that you are ready to help in this work in
the coming year.
We would recommend:
1. That Presbytery request all our people within its bounds to pray
much for God's blessing upon the work in which we are engaged.
2. That the churches in which the meetings are held pay the expenses
of the preachers holding the meetings.
3. That the churches where the meetings are held be instructed to
report to the chairman of this committee: (a) the date set for the
meetings as early as practicable after the arrangements have been com-
pleted ; and (b) that immediately after the close of the meetings they
report to the chairman of the committee in the following items : Name
of preacher conducting the meeting ; date ; number of days ; number of
professions of faith ; number of accessions by profession ; and number
of accessions by letter.
4. That at the fall meeting of Presbytery an hour be devoted to the
study and discussion of Evangelism, under the direction of the Committee
on Evangelism,.
5. That the following assignments for meetings to be held during
the year be approved :
Bethel, W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr.; Cornelius, J. M. Walker; Badin,
A. A. Walker; Rourks Chapel, C. E. White; McLean Memorial, C. E.
White; Marston, J. M. Walker; Polkton, S. B. Lyerly; Peachland, A. A.
Walker ; Pageland, W. H. Frazer ; Beulah, R. W. Culbertson ; Salem,
W. T. Smith ; Candor, A. A. Walker ; Macedonia, C. G. Long ; Indian
Trail, A. A. Walker; Siler, S. B. McLean; Troy, J. W. Stork; Wadeville,
Q. N. Huneycutt; Star, I. E. Wallace; Ellerbe, A. A. Walker; Mt.
Carmel, C. H. Rowan; Norman, T. M. Stribling ; Oakboro, W. H.
Johnson ; Locust, W. S. Hamiter ; Stanfield, W. T. Smith ; Morgan Me-
morial, C. H, Little; Roberdel, C. H. Rowan; Brainard, C. H. Little;
Cameronian, W. H. Johnston ; North Charlotte, J. W. Stork ; Morven,
W. T. Smith; Lilesville, L. R. Walker; Camden. J. W. Stork; Marks
Creek, L. R. Walker; Midland, J. G. Garth; Unionville, I. E. Wallace.
On motion, the Stated Clerk v^as instructed to notify Licen-
tiate C. B. Alexander that his licensure has expired.
The Auditing Committe's report was read and adopted as
follows :
Your Auditing Committee respectfully report that they have examined
the books of J. G. Garth, Treasurer of Presbytery, and W. E. Price,
Treasurer of Home Missions and Benevolence, and find their books cor-
rectly kept, with all accounts balanced.
Auditing Committee,
J. O. THOMAS.
J. F. JAMISON.
April 9, 1927.
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TREASURER'S REPORT
April 15, 1926, to April 4, 1927.
Received from C. C. Anderson $ 400.52
Received from Churches ^ 3,155.52
Total Receipts $ 3,556.04
Total Disbursements $ 2,816.09
Balance in Commercial National Bank 739.95
Accounts Paid :
Assembly Dues $ 1,218.40
Synod's Dues 233.76
j3..l3.riGS *
Stated Clerk, J. G. Garth 200.00
Permanent Clerk, J. W. Stork 30.00
Home Mission Treasurer, W. E. Price 100.00
Auditors 25.00
Printing Minutes 397.25
Miscellaneous Printing 65.80
Safe 150.00
Hauling Safe 5.50
Vacation Bible School 100.44
Stewardship 259.77
Postage 5.00
Presbyterial Blanks 21.50
W. E. Price, to balance 3.67
$ 2,816.09
J. G. GARTH.
The order of the day was changed so that the Foreign Mis-
sion report might be taken up at once instead of 1 1 o'clock.
It was moved and carried that the unfinished business of
Sharon Church be taken up immediately after the report on
Foreign Missions.
Rev. W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., made the report on Foreign
Missions, which was received as information, and the following
recommendations were adopted :
RECOMMENDATIONS
1. That Church Schools of Missions studying the approved mission
sudy book be organized in all our churches during January, 1928.
2. That Sunday Schools and Young People's Societies give prayer
for foreign missions a definite place in their programs, using the booklet
"Our Prayer Each Week."
3. That Sunday Schools study our Mexico Mission work this year
and apply their foreign mission gifts to the $60,000 to be raised this year
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by our Sunday Schools for Mexico, such offerings to be credited on their
local churches' Foreign Mission apportionments.
4. That Young People's Societies apply their foreign missoin offer-
ings to the special missionaries assigned by the General Assernbly to
Young People's Societies for support, such offerings to be credited as
above.
5. That ministers keep foreign missions, in its scriptural emphasis
and proportion, before their people by frequent sermons and by visits of
foreign missionaries, such visits being gladly arranged for by the foreign
mission office upon request.
6. That churches, societies, and individuals assume, wherever prac-
ticable, definite responsibility for definite parts of the foreign mission
work .
SHARON CHURCH
The unfinished business concerning Sharon Church was
taken up.
A motion was made and carried to hear the history of the
case from the beginning. The Stated Clerk then read from the
minutes of the Presbytery, the record of the case, up to the
present time. The following paper, offered by Rev. S. B. Mc-
Lean, was adopted. The paper contained two letters which the
Clerk was instructed to forward to the parties addressed.
To the former members of the Board of Deacons of Sharon Church who
are not now members of the Board, and to their adherents in the
Church :
After prayerful and earnest consideration, the Presbytery of Meck-
lenburg is impelled to take no further action now concerning the unfor-
tunate differences obtaining or which did obtain between certain of the
officers and members of Sharon Church, which were heretofore laid
before the Presbytery. While deeply deploring the non-compliance with
the recommendation of the Presbytery, made on January 20, 1927, and
then and there assented to almost unanimiously by the members present,
to re-elect the members of the old Board of Deacons in full and bury
past differences, and while the Presbytery was grievously disappointed
in that an engagement so solemn and sacred should have been disregarded,
and hereby records its displeasure thereat, yet it feels under the guidance
of the Holy Spirit, constrained to pass over this remissness on the part
of those members of the congregation who did not abide by the agreement
with Presbytery, it being the hope of the Presbytery that God will over-
rule for His own glory any mistake or wrong that has been done by such
members.
It is not for lack of ecclesiastical authority in the Presbytery that
this conclusion has been reached, but because it is believed tO' be for the
honor and glory of Jesus Christ and for the promotion of His Kingdom.
This action of the Presbytery will be forthwith communicated to the
Session of Sharon Church and their adherents by the Moderator and
Stated Clerk of the Presbytery.
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While yO'U may feel deeply aggrieved at the action of a majority of
the congregation taken at the congregational meeting on the day of
February, 1927, when an election of deacons was held, looking at it from
the human standpoint, and you may be in great perplexity as to your
proper course in the future, you are yet reminded that man's extremity is
God's opportunity and that He can bring good for all concerned even out
of a situation seemingly as untoward as has existed in Sharon Church.
Presbytery cherishes the hope that the real Christ-like spirit will be
uppermost and will yet prevail in the hearts and lives of all concerned,
and that your active interest in and loyalty to Sharon Church will be
renewed, trusting in God to bring to pass His holy and righteous will and
pleasure.
If, however, after prayerful and patient consideration, you should
not regard it as your duty to remain a member of Sharon Church, then
Presbytery urges you to quietly and peaceably transfer your membership
to some other church of our denomination, remembering at all times,
however, that your first and foremost aim and purpose should be to do
that and only that which will most pomote God's glory, though it cost an
effort or even a sacrifice.
"The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the
communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen."
Fraternally submitted, for the Presbytery,
LYNN R. WALKER, Moderator.
J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
To the Members of the Session of Sharon Church and their adherents in
the Church:
After prayerful and earnest consideration, the Presbytery of Meck-
lenburg is impelled to take no further action now concerning the unfor-
tunate differences obtaining or which did obtain between certain of the
officers and members of Sharon Church, which were heretofore laid
before the Presbytery. While deeply deploring the non-compliance with
the recommendation of the Presbytery, made on January 20, 1927, and
then and there assented to almost unanimously by the members present,
to re-elect the members of the old Board of Deacons in full and bury past
differences, and while the Presbytery was grievously disappointed in that
an engagement so solemn and sacred should have been disregarded,
and hereby records its displeasure thereat, yet it feels under the guidance
of the Holy Spirit constrained to pass over this remissness on the part of
those members of the congregation who did not abide by the agreement
with Presbytery, it being the hope of the Presbytery that God will over-
rule for His own glory any mistake or wrong that has been done by such
members.
But the Presbytery earnestly enjoins that its view and attitude in
this matter be not misimderstood and that there be no unseemly spirit or
feeling of pride or boastfulness indulged in an account of its forbearance.
It is not for lack of ecclesiastical authority that this conclusion has been
reached.
The earnest hope and prayer of the Presbytery is that God will yet
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bring good out of evil and that the members of Sharon Church will as
far as possible forget the differences of the past and turn their faces
toward the future in a sincere desire and earnest endeavor to glorify
God and promote the advancement of His kingdom in their own hearts
and in the hearts of others.
The Presbytery requests that the Session of the Church cause this
letter to be read to the congregation at the first Sunday morning service
after receipt thereof.
"The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the
communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen."
Fraternally submitted, for the Presbytery,
LYNN R. WALKER, Moderator.
J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
Dr. W. H. Frazer gave notice of protest to Presbytery's
action, and submitted the following paper, which was admitted
to record :
A SOLEMN PROTEST
The undersigned would respectfully protest against the action of the
Presbytery in voting to take no further action in the matter of the Sharon
Church, for the following reaons :
First. Because in so doing it omitted the corrections of illegal
actions in the Session in suspending an officer without notice and without
trial, and also in requesting an officer to resign.
Second. Because in so doing it omitted to correct an error com-
mitted by the Session in assigning church property to others than the
Board of Deacons, contrary to the law of the Church.
Third. Because in so doing it failed to censure the Session of the
Church in not calling the congregational meeting for the purpose of
electing, if the way be clear, "the original eight deacons and no others."
Fourth. Because in the opinion of the protestant the Presbytery has
failed to give due consideration to the fifty-one complainants, including
the eight deacons.
Respectfully submitted,
W. H. FRAZER, Protestant.
Special prayer was offered by Dr. A. R. Shaw for the son
of Rev. A. S. Johnson, who was critically ill.
COMMISSIONERS TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The following ministers were appointed as Commissioners
to attend meeting of General Assembly, at El Dorado, Ark,,
May 19, 1927 :
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Principals: Rev. J. R. Bridges, D.D., Rev. W. B. S.
Chandler, Rev. A. A. McGeachy, D.D., Rev. S. B. Lyerly,
Alternates: S. A. Ewart, Lynn R. Walker, D.D., C. G.
Long, A. S. Johnson, D.D.
The selections v^ere made by choosing the four highest
among the nominees, as principals, and the four next high-
est as alternates in series.
In the same manner the foUov^ing were chosen as lay
commissioners: Principals: Wm. Anderson, W. L. Wallis,
J. A. Mclntyre, C. S. Harkey; Alternates: H. C. Alexander,
J. W. McClung, F. C. Efird, J. E. Thomas.
The report on Vacancy and Supply was submitted and re-
ceived as information.
An overture from Providence Church touching the morality
of interest was referred to the Committee on Bills and Over-
tures.
Recess was taken until 8 :00 p. m.
WEDNESDAY EVENING
Presbytery reconvened at 8 :00 o'clock.
The report of the Home Mission Committee was read and
referred to the Standing Committee of Home Missions.
A popular meeting on Home Missions was conducted by
Rev. A. A. Walker, during which workers from the dififerent
parts of the Home Mission Field spoke as follows : Revs. A. S.
Anderson, Q. N. Huneycutt, S. B. McLean, and Elder J. A.
Mclntyre.
Resolutions of sympathy were extended by Presbytery to
the family of Dr. W. R. Coppedge, who died April 10th.
RESOLUTIONS OF SYMPATHY
The Presbytery of Mecklenburg in session at Albemarle,
N. C, extends its loving sympathy to the sons of our brother.
Dr. W. R. Coppedge, whose recent death brings sorrow to all
our hearts.
Our prayer is that the God of all grace may comfort your
hearts.
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Dr. Coppedge has left us an example of untiring zeal in the
Lord's service. Like his Lord, he came not to l)e ministered
unto, but to minister.
Submitted, J. R. Bridges.
A committee consisting of Dr. J. R. Bridges, Rev. T. M.
Stribling, and Dr. Lynn R. Walker, were appointed a committee
to prepare a memorial at the fall session of Presbytery. Prayer
was offered for the family by Dr. Bridges.
The report of Committee on Religious Education was made
first order of day Thursday.
The report of Schools and Colleges was made second order
of the day Thursday.
Treasurer of Presbytery's Home Missions made a report,
which was referred to the Auditing Committee.
The report of Stewardship Committee was made the first
order of the afternoon Thursday.
Rev. S. B. McLean was appointed chairman of Committee
on Resolution of Thanks.
THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 14
Presbytery reconvened at 9 :(X) a. m.
Devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. W. B. S.
Chandler.
The minutes of yesterday's session were read and approved.
The Commission to install Rev. J. A. Caligan reported as
follows, which was adopted :
INSTALLATION OF REV. J. A. CALIGAN
The Commission to install the Rev. J. A. Caligan as pastor of the
church at Wadesboro met at the church on the 20th day of March, 1927,
with Rev. A. A. Walker as chairman and Rev. T. M. Stribling as clerk,
and Rev. W. B. S. Chandler and Elders W. E. Price and W. T. McQueen
completing the commission.
Rev. J. A. Caligan was duly installed as pastor of said church, Rev.
A. A. Walker presiding, Rev. W. B. S. Chandler preaching the sermon,
Rev. T. M. Stribling charging the pastor, and Elder W. E. Price de-
livering the charge to the people.
Respectfully submitted,
A. A. WALKER. Chairman.
T. M. STRIBLING, Clerk.
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Upon request from the Pegram Street Church, the name of
that church was changed to The Plaza Presbyterian Church.
The Stated Clerk and Treasurer was instructed to forward
the Assembly dues, $1,246.72, to the Treasurer of the General
Assembly.
The Committee on Religious Education reported through
the chairman, Rev. W. B. S. Chandler, which was adopted.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Your Committee on Relig^ious Education would respectfully submit
the following report :
Sabbath Schools
A total of only 70 reports have come into the hands of the committee,
leaving some 20 schools which failed to report. From the reports re-
ceived some very interesting facts are gathered. We note that many of
the churches report exceptionally large cradle rolls, among them Sharon
26, Hamlet 129, Norwood 25, West Avenue 32, Plaza 30, Caldwell Me-
morial 133, and Charlotte Second 163. We also note with satisfaction
that a number of the smaller churches made fine contributions to the
Orphanage.
We note with regret that so few of the schools have Home Depart-
ments, only nine of the 70 reporting such. Also, that very few schools
use the Budget system, that there are few mission schools conducted by
the larger churches, and that a very large number report no additions to
the church from the Sunday School. Only 27 of the 70 report such
additions.
Young People's Societies
We find that there are a total of IZ societies within the bounds of the
Presbytery, with a total membership of 2,432. Total contributions to all
causes, $2,688.10. A total of 50 churches reported societies, whereas 15
report no young people's organization.
Your committee would commend those churches whose reports show
that they appreciate this most potent arm of the church. However, from
the reports received, the deplorable fact is revealed that more than 60
per cent of our churches have no such organization.
We would recommend that the pastors and sessions of these churches
be urged to put forth strenuous efforts to see that this most important
work is not neglected.
Your Committee on Sabbath Schools would submit the following
recommendations :
1. That the schools take full advantage of the Daily Vacation Bible
Schools for which provision has been made by the Presbytery.
2. That they organize and maintain Teacher Training Qasses
throughout the year.
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3. That every school conduct a class in missions during the year,
4. That the Budget system be adopted by all schools, thereby con-
tributing to all causes of the Church systematically.
5. That Church Sessions see that reports to Presbytery are ac-
curately made out and promptly put into the hands of the committee.
STATISTICAL REPORT OF YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK
Young People's Work
No. Senior Christian Endeavor Societies, 31 ; membership, 1,372.
No. Intermediate Christian Endeavor Societies, 10 ; membership, 260.
No. Junior Christian Endeavor Societies, 18 ; membership, 398.
No. Boys' Groups, 3 ; membership, 83.
No. Girls' Groups, 2; membership, 44.
No. other forms, 8; membership, 236.
Total membership in all Y. P. organizations. IZ ; membership, 2,432.
Contributions
To Denominational Benevolences :
Foreign Missions $ 402
Assembly's Home Missions 25
Christian Education and Ministerial Relief , 17
Publication and Sabbath School Work 8
Assembly's Training School for Lay Workers 8
Bible Cause 1
S3mod's Home Missions 12
Orphans' Homes 243
Educational Institutions 51
Presbytery's Home Missions 83
Total Denominational Benevolences $ 840
To Local Church Work :
Total, Local Church Work $1,206
Miscellaneous Contributions 642
Grand Total, all Contributions $2,688
Organization and Activities
1. Are the organizations under control of Session? Yes.
2. Do they study: (1) The activities and needs of all our Church
Agencies ? — . (2) Stev^ardship of Life and Possessions ? — .
3. Do they stress the following duties: (1) Daily Devotional Bible
Study? Yes. (2) Regular Prayer Habits? Yes.
4. Do they promote the following activities?: (1) Spiritual? Yes.
(2) Mental? — . (3) Physical? — . (4) Social? Yes.
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5. Are they following the outline of the Progressive Program in
their work? — ,
Total churches reporting, 52.
Churches reporting no Y. P. organization, 16.
Respectfully submitted.
By the Committee,
WM. B. S. CHANDLER, Chairman.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
The death of our dear brother. Dr. Coppedge, imposes upon me the
duties of the chairman of the Committee on Schools and Colleges.
I beg to report as follows:
The schools under the control of the Presbytery are full, and, with
the exception of Union Theological Seminary, have had to turn away
applicants.
Davidson College should be enlarged to meet the growing demands,
or else steps taken to found a Junior College to meet the increasing
demand of our people for a college for their sons.
Queens College, while prospering, needs more equipment.
The school at Albemarle needs the special care of the Presbytery, in
view of the fact that Miss Harris, who has so successfully conducted it,
has felt constrained to give up the work.
We have received reports from Queens College and from Davidson
College.
We recommend that Mr. McAllister Carson be heard at the con-
clusion of this report, this change being made at the request of Dr.
Frazer, who is detained by business.
We have also received an invitation for Presbytery to attend the in-
auguration of Rev. Benjamin Rice Lacy, D.D., as President of Union
Theological Seminary, Tuesday, May 10th, 4 :30 p. m.
We have also received the report of Rev. W. M. Hunter, chairman of
Synod's Committee of Schools and Colleges, which shows the financial
condition of this important cause.
This Presbjrtery has given $9,147.22, a decrease, since last year, of
$247.89.
Last year, however, we were collecting the dues of amounts sub-
scribed to Union Theological Seminary. If we leave out those amounts
in the comparison, then there has been an increase this year.
Respectfully submitted,
J. R. BRIDGES, Chairman.
April 12, 1927.
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REPORT OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGE FUND
I beg to hand you transcript from; Treasurer Jackson's ledger, show-
ing just what Mecklenburg Presbytery has done for our School and Col-
lege work. This totals $9,147.22, which is a decrease of $247.89 from the
amount given last year, but when we remember that last year we were
collecting money for Union Theological Seminary, it would show an
actual increase for our School and College work. Therefore we feel very
grateful for what has been done for us by your Presbytery.
As to the Synod's total, we have received $39,444.71 as against
$42,652.35 last year, showing a decrease of $3,207.64 ; but if you will add
to this year's gifts about $4,000, which we are reasonably assured has
gone to the Seminary, the total this year will then show an increase over
last year of about $800. It is also nothing but right that we should re-
member that not less than $4,000 has been sent direct to our educational
institutions of which our treasurer has no record whatever. Thus if you
will take the sum' total of $39,444.71 handled by our Synod's Treasurer,
about $4,000 sent to our Theological Seminary, and not less than $4,000
direct to our institutions, we can show a sum total of about $47,444.71 for
our School and College work.
While this is nothing like the percentage of our total benevolent fund
asked for by Synod, it seems to me that we should feel very much en-
couraged. I trust that these facts and figures will reach you in time to
make your report to Presbytery. We have learned by experience that
some of our churches simply will not send in their gifts in time to close
our books earlier, so this is a real rush season in my ofifice. If you feel
so inclined, I would be glad for you to read this letter to your Presbytery.
Yours fraternally,
W. M. HUNTER,
Chairman School and College Committee.
REPORT OF DAVIDSON COLLEGE
To the Presbyteries Governing Davidson College :
Brethren :
Your institution has had so far a good year. Our ranks have been
full, fewer students have had to be dropped for failure in work, the fac-
ulty has been enlarged until we now have 38 instructors. This is an in-
crease of six over last year. Our student enrollment is 642 as compared
with 609 last year. We had many to apply for entrance who could not be
taken as we believe the student body is fully as large as it should be.
Financially, our income is greater because of the Duke Foundation,
but our expense is fully as much greater, and we are hard put to it to
make ends meet. We believe that our governing Presbyteries wish David-
son to stand fully abreast with the best in educational work and training
for life service. To get the best and do the best costs more than indiffer-
ent work would. We are not, therefore, abundantly supplied with money ;
for the work we have set ourselves to do we are still illy supplied with
income. If we are sane enough to hold our student body to its present
size, we will eventually come to the state of an "effective college."
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While progressive in work, Davidson is still sound morally and
spiritually. Every man on the faculty is a Christian and known as such
by his life here among us. Upon this firm foundation we rest, viz : that
Jesus Christ, the Son of God and God Himself, is not only the greatest
Teacher of mankind, but is the only and yet all sufficient Savior of man-
kind. We so believe and we so teach.
Our most pressing present need is the completion of our great central
building at a cost of $400,000. Of this amount we have at present some-
thing more than half promised. As soon as the rest is pledged we shall
resume building operations.
And, now, my brethren, pray for us that our faith fail not, that all
our proper wants be supplied and that the finished product of your insti-
tution may be more and more unto the glory of God.
We have on our rolls 642 students, 628 members of evangelical
churches, of which 509 are Presbyterians. There are 92 candidates for
the ministry. Every member of the Junior and Senior classes is a mem-
ber of the Church.
WM. J. MARTIN, President.
Davidson College, March 31, 1927.
REPORT OF QUEENS COLLEGE
I am handing herein contained a brief report of Queens College, for
consideration at your spring meeting.
We have had enrolled during the year 352 students all together ; 168
of these have been boarding pupils, and 184 have been day pupils. Of the
day pupils, 110 have been regularly enrolled in the School of Liberal Arts
and Sciences, and 74 have been enrolled in the special schools of Elocution,
Art and Music.
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees, held on February 15th, Mr.
L. Wilson Jarman, Professor of Mathematics at Chicora College, Co-
lumbia, S. C., was elected as Vice-President, whose special work will be
to have charge of curricula, and courses of study. The board authorized
the President at this meeting to raise $200,000, if possible, in scholarships,
which will make the full amount of $500,000 in endowment money.
The new building, which is a gift of a friend of the institution, is
now practically half-way completed, and will make a very imposing, com-
modious and useful structure. The cost, when completed, will be $80,000,
and the payments are being met by the friend of the institution as they
come due.
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The following is the financial statement for the year :
Accounts receivable, total $104,716.43
Accounts collected 84,477.19
Balance to be collected $ 20,239.24
Cash received from all sources $ 90,300.46
Cash paid out 86,452.57
Balance in bank $ 3,847.89
Statement as of April 6, 1927 :
Accounts to be collected $ 20,239.24
Cash in bank 3,847.89
Due from Synod — 5,000.00
$ 29,087.13
Salaries $11,000.00
Approximate expenses 7,000.00
$18,000.00
It will be seen that the college has had a splendid year in every re-
spect, and has done the best work of any year in its entire history. It is
very pleasing to the Board of Trustees to be able to announce with all
confidence that the courses of study are thoroughly adjusted to the
demands of the standing agencies, and that the instruction given compares
favorably if not to advantage with that of any other institution of similar
purpose in the state. The department of Religious Education is unques-
tionably a very superior one, and the work being done not only is forming
Christian character and safeguarding the student from the danger of
invasions upon her faith, but is also preparing her for very useful work
in the Church and in the community back home. The Board feels that it
cannot speak in too high terms of the splendid services of Dr. Charles
William Somerville and his assistants in the department.
Respectfully submitted,
A. A. McGEACHY,
President Board of Trustees.
April 6, 1927.
The report of the Committee on Schools and Colleges was
adopted.
A commission consisting of the Home Mission Committee,
with Supt. A. A. Walker as chairman, was appointed to inquire
into and, if the way be clear, to transfer Pageland and Salem
Churches to Pee Dee Presbytery, Synod of South Carolina.
The Leave of Absence Committee reported as follows, and
the report was adopted.
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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON LEAVE OF ABSENCE
Excused for non-attendance : Ministers : L. H. Query, W. P.
Chedester, Wm. Black, M. E. Sentelle, J. A. McQueen, A. S. Johnson,
G. C. Huntington, R. S, Latimer.
Excused after Wednesday : W. H. Frazer, C. W. Somerville, A.
A. McGeachy, A. R. Shaw, Parks W. Wilson, J. A. Caligan, M. E.
Peabody.
Excused after Thursday morning : R. S. Burwell, H. H. Cassady,
R. W. C'ulbertson, Wm. B. S. Chandler, W. A. Henderson.
Excused after Wednesday : Elders : E. W. Christenbury, J. D.
Crowell, J. C. McGhee, H. G. Torrence, J. L Proctor, W. E. Kistler.
W. L. Shelby, C. S. Hurdle, A. M. Eubanks, J. E. Efird, P. J. C. Efird,
J. T. Wardlaw, A. B. Norwood, E. W. Ewart, J. A. McRea, O. W. Potts.
(Signed) F. S. NEAL, Chairman.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AND
MINISTERIAL RELIEF
Your committee calls attention to the fact that this Presbytery re-
ceived from the Central Committee at Louisville, last year, $1,077.90' more
than it gave.
Dr. H. H. Sweets advises that since there has been a decrease in the
amounts received, that there will necessarily have to be a scaling down
of amounts appropriated to at least some of the beneficaries.
We recommend the following appropriations for Ministerial Relief :
Mrs. Mary L. Arrowood $25.00
Mrs. Allie W. Cochran 4L66
Mrs. Rhoda Daniels 4L66
Mrs. Emma Hardin 4L66
Rev. L. H. Query 35.00
Rev. A. H. Temple 4L66
Rev. W. C. Underwood 40.00
J. W. GRIER, Chairman.
The report was adopted.
CALLS AND SUPPLIES
Your Committee on Calls and Supplies respectfully submits the fol-
lowing report :
We recommend:
L That Dr. W. H. Frazer be given permission to supply Mallard
Creek Church until the next stated meeting of Presbytery.
2. That Dr. A. R. Shaw be given permission to supply the Williams
Memorial Church until the next stated meeting of Presbytery.
3. That the call from the Church of Candor for the pastoral services
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of Rev. A. L, McDuffie be placed in the hands of the Stated Clerk of
Presb3rtery until Brother McDuffie shall have been received into the
Presbytery.
4. That the call from the Church of Thomasboro for the pastoral
services of Rev. W. H. Matheson be placed in the hands of the Stated
Clerk of Presbytery until Brother Matheson shall have been received into
the Presbytery.
5. That the call from Locust Church for the pastoral services of
Rev. T. F. Huneycutt, at salary of $100.00 per year, be found in order
and placed in his hands.
6. That the call from Oakboro Church for the pastoral services of
Rev. T. F. Huneycutt, at salary of $150.00 per year, be found in order
and placed in his hands.
7. That the call from Morgan Memorial Church for the pastoral
services of Rev. T. F. Huneycutt, at salary of $150.00 per year, be found
in order and placed in his rands.
8. That the Wilmoore Presbyterian Church be given permission to
increase the salary of its pastor, as requested, granted, from the sum of
$1,100.00 annually, to $1,400.00, beginning April 1, 1927.
9. That the St. Paul Presbyterian Church be given permission to
increase the salary of its pastor, as requested, granted, from the sum of
$2,100.00 annually, to $2,300.00, beginning April 6, 1927.
10. That Rev. M, E. Peabody be given permission to supply Newell
Church until the next stated meeting of Presb^^ery.
C. G. LONG, Chairman.
MEN'S AND WOMEN'S SOCIETIES
Your committee would respectfully report :
Women's Work
Total Societies, 68; Total membership, 4,631.
Contributions
To Denominational Benevolences : Foreign Missions, $17,719 ; As-
sembly's Home Missions, $7,984; Christian Education and Ministerial
Relief, $2,254; S. S. Extension, $517; Bible Cause, $266; Synod's Home
Missions, $1,936; Orphans' Homes, $14,083; Educational Institutions,
$3,639; Presbytery's Home Missions, $3,223. Total, Denominational
Benevolences, $51,621.
To Local Church Work : Current Expenses, $9,413 ; Congregational
Missions, $330; Building Expense, $54; Contingent Fund, $1,053. Total,
Local Church Work, $10,850.
Auxiliary Ben., $4,491 ; Miscellaneous Contributions, $6,694. Total.
$11,185. Grand Total, All Contributions, $73,656. This was an increase
over previous year of $16,967.
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Men's Work
Total male membership of church, 18 years and over, 2,079.
Contributions to Denominational Benevolences : Foreign Missions,
$9,860; Assembly's Home Missions, $3,600. To Local Church Work:
Current Expenses, $3,012; Miscellaneous Contributions, $558. Grand
Total, All Contributions, $17,030.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ASSEMBLY'S HO^ME MISSIONS
Your Committee on Assembly's Home Missions begs leave to subtnit
the following report :
The Committee on AsemWy's Home Missions is glad to report a
slightly improved financial situation over last year. The total receipts
for the year were $571,818.65, a gain of $29,973 over the income from the
same sources in 1926, but $5,013 less than the total income for 1925.
By a severe reduction in appropriations to the Presbjrteries and Mis-
sions and postponing all building operations, all obligations for the year
were paid, and the bank debt was reduced from $86,500' to $60,521.
The committee would emphasize again the far-reaching and many-
sided work of the Assembly's Home Missions. This committee is aiding,
either directly or in co-operation with the Presbyteries and Synods, in the
support of 757 workers — evangelists, teachers, physicians, nurses and
Bible women. This army of Home Missionaries is conducting 855 mis-
sion enterprises — churches, missions, hospitals, dispensaries, with 387 out-
stations and unorganized preaching points in the mountains, among the
Negroes, the Immigrants, the Indians, the Mexicans, the Jews, and the
unchurched millions in crowded cities and in lonely country places.
It is impossible to determine the number of people touched directly or
indirectly by the Assembly's Home Mission enterprises. When it is
realized, however, that the work is conducted in nearly 1,241 communities,
and nearly one-fourth of the churches of the Assembly are aided by As-
sembly's Home Mission funds ; that every pupil in a mission school means
a contact with a family, and the multitudes reached by the evangelists
are considered, the far-reaching influence of the Assembly's Home Mis-
sion work upon the life of the church and the nation will be better
understood.
Through the efforts O'f these workers 6,879 persons were added to the
church upon profession of faith, and 3,842 were received by certificate.
It is also gratifying to note that with the help of the Assembly's Com-
mittee, 24 new churches were organized during the year, and 50 Home
Mission churches were brought to self-support. The Presbyteries aided
by the Assembly's Committee report the organization of 79 new Sunday
Schools and 190 o^pportunities for the organization of new churches.
Before the close of the year the committee notified all the Presby-
teries and missions expecting aid that the inadequate funds would neces-
sitate another reduction in appropriations, and requested each Presbytery
and mission to reduce its application to the lowest possible figure. After
this reduction was made by the Presbyteries and institutions the applica-
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tions for assistance totalled $815,267, and this was urged as the irreducible
mtinimum for the various Assembly's Home Mission enterprises this year.
The Annual Home Mission Day in the Sunday School has been
changed from November to the last Sunday in June. The committee is
asking the Sunday Schools to make a special offering on this date to com-
plete the sorely needed building at Highland School, Guerrant, Ky. The
co-operation of all our schools is earnestly desired.
The following recommendations are offered :
1. That the Sunday Schools be urged to study Home Missions as a
part of the Church's great missionary responsibility, and that the gifts
on Home Mission Day, Sunday, June 26, 1927, be applied to the Highland
School Building, Guerrant, Ky.
2. That the Young People's Societies be urged to apply their Home
Mission offerings to the Blue Ridge Academy, which school the General
Assembly has assigned them as their special responsibility.
3. That the Presbytery endorse the Week of Prayer for Home
Missions, November 13-20, and urge its observance in all the churches as
an occasion for giving information and advancing the interests of this
growing work.
4. That the Presbytery urge all pastors toi preach upon Home Mis-
sions in November, the Home Mission month, and all churches not taking
the Every Member Canvass for Benevolences be urged to make an offer-
ing for this cause.
Respectfully submitted,
J. F. LIGON, Chairman.
The report was adopted.
SESSIONAL RECORDS
The following Session books were approved without exception : Paw
Creek, Mallard Creek, Cooks Memorial, Hopewell, Amity, McGee, Mul-
berry, Cornelius, Norman, Myers Park, Sharon, Monroe, Marshville,
Badin, Seversville, Wilmoore, Tenth Avenue, Sugaw Creek, Matthews,
Thomasboro, Albemarle, First Charlotte, Huntersville, West Avenue,
Westminster, Central Steele Creek, Pleasant Hill, Newell, Williams
Memorial.
I. The following with exceptions :
1. Not opened and closed with prayer : Mt. Carmel, Marston,
Rocky River, Walkersville, Rehoboth, St. Paul, Bethel, Norwood, Beth-
any, Steele Creek, Alton, Hamlet, Banks.
2. Minutes not read and approved : Rourk's Cliapel, Marston, Sec-
ond Church, Charlotte, McLean's Memorial, Pageland.
3. No statistical report in Session book : Mt. Carmel, Rourk's
Chapel, McLean's Memorial, Providence, Caldwell Memorial.
4. Meetings not held quarterly : Oakboro, Pee Dee. Robinson,
Salem,, North Charlotte, Bethany, Alton, Waxhaw.
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5. Minutes not signed by clerk : Second Church, Philadelphia,
N. No report from representative to Presb3^ery : Second Church,
Philadelphia, Wadesboro, Ramah, Caldwell Memorial,
7. Session meetings not dated : McLean's Memorial.
L E, WALLACE, Chairman,
The report was adopted.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SYNOD'S MINUTES
The Committee on Minutes of Synod beg leave to report that min-
utes of the 1926 session have been examined. Minutes are neatly printed
and the committee finds nothing of special interest to emphasize.
C. H. LITTLE, Chairman,
The report was adopted.
NOMINATING COMMITTEE
The Nominating Committee would nominate the following:
Dr, J, P. Matheson, of Charlotte, to succeed J. W. Pharr, deceased,
as trustee of Davidson College, On the Home Mission Committee, Rev,
C, G. Long to succeed Rev, W, R. Coppedge, deceased ; Rev, C. H,
Rowan in place of Rev. H, E, Gurney, resigned, and Rev. Lynn R,
Walker to be added to the committee.
The report was adopted.
Calls of Oakboro, Locust, and Morgan Memorial for the
pastoral services of Rev. T. F. Huneycutt were placed in his
hands, and were accepted. The following commissions were
appointed for his installation :
At Locust, third Sabbath in May, at 11 a. m., and Mor-
gan Memorial on same day at 3 p m, : Ministers, A. A.
Walker, S. B. McLean and W. C. Underwood; Elders W. E.
Price and F. S. Neal.
At Oakboro, fourth Sabbath in May, at 8 p. m, : Min-
isters, C. G. Long, J. W. Stork and A. S. Anderson ; Elders,
Jim Harris and J. A. Little.
The Presbyterial Sermon was preached by Rev, W. H.
Johnston, from Psalm 24:1. Subject, The Sovereignty of God.
Resolution was passed to extend time of recess in order
to hear Rev. R. J. Mcllwain on Albemarle Normal.
Committee on Bills and Overtures offered its report,
which was docketed till afternoon session.
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A. C. Huneycutt and Henry Belk, trustees of Albemarle
Normal, were granted the privilege of the floor to discuss
matters pertaining to the school.
Second order of the afternoon was fixed to hear J. B.
Johnston on the Orphans' Home.
THE STEWARDSHIP COMMITTEE
The Chairman and Secretary for Stewardship offered a
report, and asked that J. B. Spillman, Synod's Secretary of
Stewardship be heard. The following report was adopted :
To the Presbytery of Mecklenburg, Stated Session, April, 1927:
The Stewardship Committee submits the following report:
Pursuant to the authorization of Presbytery at the regular Fall
session of 1926, your Committee prepared and published a schedule
of six group conferences on Stewardship to be held in different sec-
tions of the Presbytery, and mailed copies of the schedule to all the
ministers of the Presbytery, accompanied by invitations to attend
the conference most convenient with representatives from their
churches. Beginning on February 13th and running through Feb-
ruary i6th, these coferences were held at the following churches,
namely : Paw Creek, Plaza, Walkersville, Rockingham, Norman and
Badin.
The program prepared and recommended by the Assembly's
Stewardship Committee was used, with slight variations. Devo-
tional exercises were conducted by the pastors of the local churches
except in one instance where the pastor was sick. Rev. J. F. Ligon,
Rev. J. M. Walker, Rev. R. J. Mcllwain, Rev. Lynn R. Walker, D.D.,
and Rev. J. W. Stork, whose efficient services your Committee
gratefully acknowledges, took part in the program, as did also your
Secretary of Stewardship. An open conference at each appoint-
ment was conducted by Mr. J. B. Spillman, Synod's Secretary of
Stewardship.
As furnishing some information concerning the value of these
conferences, the following summary is given : At Paw Creek, the
first one, on Sunday afternoon, the attendance of laymen and ladies
was good and considerable interest was manifested. At the con-
ference at Plaza Church on the next evening, which was intended
especially for the churches of Charlotte, the congregation numbered
about twenty-five. At Walkersville on Tuesday, where dinner was
served on the grounds, probably about twenty-five members of this
church were present, with one other church represented by two or
three members. At Rockingham, on Tuesday night, the representa-
tion was about the same as at Walkersville, Some interest was
noticeable at this conference. At Norman on Wednesday morning,
Dr. William Black was conducting evangelistic services and while
the conference immediately followed his morning service, the at-
tendance was very gratifying and some real interest was shown. At
Badin the congregation was small, composed of men only, as the
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ladies of the Church were attending an Auxiliary meeting the date
of which was arranged before the date of the conference was
known. However, several churches were represented at this con-
ference and it is believed some good was accomplished.
Undoubtedly such conferences served a good purpose when first
introduced. These details for each meeting this year are furnished
in order that Presbytery may judge of their further usefulness in
the future.
Following the conferences, laymen were placed at the disposal
of any church desiring them for the purpose of presenting the cause
of Stewardship and the various phases of the Every Member Can-
vass. Most of the churches are now familiar with the plans and
methods of such a canvass, but during the month of March twelve
Committees of such laymen, or two or three each, visited twelve
churches. Reports from these Committees indicate that their ef-
forts were well worth while and that such duties come peculiarly
within the province of laymen. Mr. C. Parks Brown and Dr. S. B.
McPheeters rendered much assistance in providing these Com-
mittees of laymen to visit the churches.
Appended hereto is a tabular statement, marked "Exhibit A,"
showing in detail the subscriptions by the various churches of the
Presbytery for the year beginning April i, 1927, both for Current
Expenses and for Benevolences, as far as the Presbyterial Secretary
of Stewardship has been able to get them, either from reports to
him direct or from the regular reports to the Presbytery. The
figures reported herein for Charlotte First Church were not reported
to us officially by the Session of the Church but were furnished
during the Spring meeting of Presbytery at Albemarle by Mr. Mc-
Allister Carson, the representative of this Church at Presbytery, and
are subject to correction. Following is a summary of such sub-
scriptions :
The Benevolent Quota for the Presbytery for the year beginning
April I, 1927 is $175,855.
Total number of subscriptions to Benevolences 6,450
Total amount subscribed to Benevolences $159,475
Total number of subscriptions to Current Expenses 7,004
Total amount subscribed to Current Expenses $181,081
Total amount subscribed for Ben. and Current Exp $340,3(^
Amount short of Benevolent Quota $17,630
Forty-two churches have made no report of their Every Mem-
ber Canvass either to the Presbyterial Secretary of Stewardship or
to the Presbytery except that one or two stated that such a canvass
had been made, but gave no other information concerning the can-
vass. The names of such churches are as follows :
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Allen
Bethlehem
Beulah
Biscoe
Brainard
Camden
Cameronian
Candor
Carmel
Ellerbe
Hopewell
Tuntersville
ndian Trail
^ilesville
^ocust
vlacedonia
Mark's Creek
Vlarston
vlatthews
.Vlidland
Morgan Alemorial
Morven
No. Charlotte
Norwood
Oakboro
Palestine
Peachland
Pee Dee
Polkton
Providence
Roberdell
Salem
Six Mile Creek
Stanfield
Star
Stevenson
Thomasboro
Troy
Turner
Wadesboro
Wadeville
Your Committee makes the following recommendations :
1st. That the Treasurers of Churches, Woman's Auxiliaries,
Sunda}^ Schools and Young People's Societies be urged to remit all
Benevolent Funds in their hands to Mr. W. E. Price, 30 West Fifth
Street, Charlotte, N. C, Treasurer of Benevolent Funds of Meck-
lenburg Presbytery, ON THE FIRST DAY OF EACH MONTH, as
your Committee believes that regular and prompt disbursement of
the Benevolent Funds is a very material factor in the matter of
fidelity to God concerning our gifts for the promotion of His King-
dom.
2nd. That when a Church remits Benevolent Funds direct, a
monthly report be mailed to Mr. W. E. Price so that the report of
such a church may be included in the quarterly report sent out from
the office of Synod's Secretary of Stewardship.
3rd. That Church Treasurers be instructed by the Sessions of
their churches not to use Benevolent Funds for the purpose of pay-
ing Pastor's Salaries, Current Expenses or Presb3^terial Tax, such
use of their money being a misappropriation of trust funds, and re-
sults in reducing the contributions of the members when they dis-
cover that such is the practice of the Treasurer, and we further
recommend two Treasurers for each Church, one for Current Ex-
penses and the other for Benevolenes, and that the funds be kept
entirely separate and distinct.
4th. That concerted effort be made by the churches of the Pres-
bytery to bring their membership to the observance of the Tithe.
5th. That all Pastors, Elders and Deacons be urged to follow up
their Every Member Canvass until the entire amount of their Benev-
olent Askings for the year beginning April i, 1927, shall have been
subscribed in full, and that, as soon as the full amount is subscribed
that they make a report to the Presbyterial Secretary of Steward-
ship.
6th. That the Stewardship Committee in connection with Pres-
bytery's Home Mission Committee arrange a Spiritual Life Con-
ference for the Ministers of the Presbytery, this conference to be
devoted to discussion and conference upon prayer, the study of the
Word and evangelism.
S. B. McLEAN,
Chairman and Presbyterial Secretary of Stewardship.
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Exhibit A. Report of amounts subscribed to the Benevolent Causes
in the Every Member Canvass for the Year Beginning
April 1, 1927
"A" after amounts subscribed indicates that the Church sub-
scribed their Benevolent Askings in full.
Ben. Quo. Amt. Sub.
Albemarle , $ 960 * $ i,204A
Allen 35
Altan 99 80
Amity 508 508A
Badin 298 310A
Banks 616 500
Bethany 70
Bethel 555 200
Bethlehem 200
Beulah 55
Biscoe 123
Brainard 156
Caldwell Memorial 10,829 ii,25oA
Camden 64
Cameronian 192
Candor 176
Carmel 568
Central Steele Creek 930 i,oooA
Charlotte First 54,360 50,670
Charlotte Second 49,5i5 54,i9oA
Cook's Memorial 500 505A
Cornelius 276 160
Ellerbe 89
Hamlet 879 987A
Hopewell 880
Huntersville 2,248
Indian Trail 100
Lee Park 117
Lilesville 22
Locust 140
Macedonia 220
Mallards Creek 1,104 1,000
Mark's Creek 316
Marshville 294 250
Marston 60
Matthews 291
McGee 732 700
McLean Memorial 36 38A
Midland 45
Monroe 3,570 3,57oA
Morgan Memorial 50
Morven 451
Mt. Carmel 152 60
Mt. Gilead 300 100
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Ben. Quo. Amt. Sub.
Mulberry 1,240 940
Myers Park 4.713
Newell 780 i,277A
Norman 57 43
North Charlotte 220
Norwood 600
Oakboro 25
Pageland 88 70
Palestine 16
Paw Creek 1,620 i,8o6A
Peachland "72
Pee Dee I55
Plaza 438 477A
Philadelphia i,347 i,36oA
Pineville 840 775
Pleasant Hill 512 55oA
Polkton 74
Porter 81 35
Providence 892
Ramah 460 400
Rehoboth 47 46
Roberdell 243
Robinson 453 200
Rockingham 650 383
Rourk's Chapel Z'^ 17
Salem 60
Seversville 875 i,i48A
Sharon 2,232 2,843A
Siler 200 100
Six-MileCreek 70
Stanfield 46
Star 22.
Stevenson
Steele Creek 7,i6o 6,192
St. Paul 1,385 i,62iA
Sugaw Creek 1,628 i,ii7
Tenth Avenue 5,8io 3,500
Thomasboro 260 200
Troy 123
Unionville 126
Turner 96 50
Wadesboro 864
Wadeville . 60
Walkersville 208 50
Waxhaw 848 320
West Avenue 1,508 i,902A
Westminster 6,010 7,99iA
William's Memorial 1,200 i,20oA
Wilmore 126 126A
Total $175,855 $169,436
Presbytery took recess till 1 :30 p. m.
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THURSDAY AFTERNOON
Presbytery resumed business at 1 :30 p. m.
The matter of Albemarle Institute was resumed.
A resolution was adopted giving the Trustees of Albe-
marle Institute authority to raise funds for the equipment
of the school.
ALBEMARLE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL
INSTITUTE
Presbytery has heard with deep appreciation the report
of the Trustees of the Albemarle Normal School.
We assure them of our sympathy with their great work
and also with their great need, and we hereby authorize
them to lay their needs before the churches of the Presby-
tery, and to raise what sum is necessary to perpetuate this
school.
We urge our pastors to give them access to their pulpits.
The following resolution touching Mrs. Elva C. Harris
was adopted:
The Presbytery hereby expresses its sincere regret that Mrs.
Elva C. Harris is severing her connection as Superintendent of Al-
bemarle Normal and Industrial Institute, which she has held for
II years so faithfully and efficiently.
We assure Mrs. Harris of our prayers and interest in her future
and wish her Godspeed.
At the same time Presbytery will assure Miss Kate Pridgen,
as the new Superintendent, of our co-operation and support.
Mr. J. B. Johnston, Superintendent of the Orphanage at
Barium Springs was heard, and Presbytery expressed its
appreciation of his address and its interest in the Orphan-
age.
The Committee on Bills and Overtures reported and the
report was amended as follows :
That a committee be appointed to investigate the ad-
visability of overturing Synod to give financial aid to the
Presbyterian Standard, and that this committee report at
an adjourned meeting before the meeting of Synod.
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The following committee was appointed : A. S. Johnson,
W. H. Frazer, C. W. Somerville, R. A. Dunn, and W. H.
Belk.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON THE SABBATH AND
FAMILY RELIGION
Although the attitude of the people toward the Sabbath does
not change materially in a single year there are some tendencies
which are both encouraging and discouraging. Because of the great
revolutions in the mode and manner of travel, the automobile and
good roads, the temptations to use the day for social visiting and
pleasure is greater now than ever before and many are yielding to
this temptation. But many are going to church also and using these
modern comforts and conveniences for the glory of God.
A recent test of the Sabbath question in the country at large has
been most enlightening and encouraging. After a solemn promise to
the State legislature of Pennsylvania and the general public that the
Sesqui-Centennial would not be opened on the Sabbath, this pledge
was violated and the gates were thrown open on the Lord's day with
the result that only 5,000,000 people attended instead of 25,000,000 as
was expected and the fair was a financial failure.
Another encouraging feature of the question is the fact that
industry and labor organizations are coming to the side of the
Church, including those serving the government, and demanding
one day's rest in seven for all who toil. In this service, the Lord's
Day Alliance is rendering a memorable service. During the past
few years the Alliance has been instrumental in securing a rest day
for thousands of these workers.
Sometime ago at a great meeting of letter carriers in Mecca
Temple, New York, Dr. Bowlby, Secretary of the Alliance, was in-
troduced to the meeting for a speech, and was greeted as the man
who put "Sun" in Sunday, for the letter carriers. Prohibition is
securer today than it was before the Civil War, when the movement
was sponsored almost entirely by the Church. Today industry and
labor are its allies. So with the Sunday question, labor is demand-
ing one day's rest in seven, and industry is willing to give it.
We recommend that the last Sabbath of October be designated
as a time for taking an offering for the Lord's Day Alliance.
There is a gradual increase in establishing family altars.
R. J. McILWAIN.
The report was adopted.
The Committee on Thanks made the following report :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON THANKS
The Presbytery of Mecklenburg, meeting at the Albemarle
Presbyterian Church for its regular Spring meeting in April, 1927,
hereby extends its thanks to the pastor and congregation of this
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church for their hospitable entertainment accorded the Presbytery
in their commodious and beautiful church building and in their
homes, and it desires also to express its apperciation of the hos-
pitality and uniform courtesy extended to its members by the peo-
ple of other denominations in the City of Albemarle. Every facility
has been provided for the expeditious transaction of the business of
the Presbytery, and those in attendance have been furnished all
needed comforts at the church and in the homes and much has been
done for our pleasure as well during the leisure hours, especially the
interesting trip to Badin, where an opportunity was afforded of
seeing the aluminum plant and the great power plant on the Pee
Dee river. Presbytery hereby records its acknowledgment of and
gratitude for this gracious entertainment and bids the Albemarle
Church and its faithful and efficient pastor Godspeed in the Mas-
ter's service.
S. B. McLEAN, Chairman.
The report was adopted by a rising vote.
PRESBYTERY'S HOME MISSIONS
Your Standing Committee on Home Missions begs to report
that they have examined the report of the Executive Committee and
recommend :
1. That Presbytery approve the report of the committee and
that they be commended for their excellent work and for the busi-
nesslike way in which they have managed the financial end of their
work.
2. That Presbytery adopt the recommendations of the Execu-
tive Committee on Appropriations.
2. That Presbytery adopt the recommendations of the Execu-
tive Committee on Appropriations.
3. That Presbytery re-elect their faithful and efficient Super-
intendent, Rev. A. A. Walker.
4. That Presbytery re-elect the Executive Committee of Home
Missions with the following exception : Rev. C. G. Long to take the
place of Dr. W. R. Coppedge, deceased, and Rev. C. H. Rowan to
take the place of Dr. H. E. Gurney, resigned.
Respectfully submitted,
W. H. JOHNSTON, Chairman.
REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF HOME MISSIONS
Report of the Executive Committee of Home Missions to Pres-
bytery meeting in Albemarle, April 12, 1927.
The Work
The year just closed has been marked by some of the finest
work being done in Home Mission fields which it has been our
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privilege to observe in all these years we have been intrusted with
the direction of this work. The work being done by some of these
men is, in the judgment of the Committee, the outstanding work of
the Presbytery. They have been tireless in their endeavor to press
forward and they are being rewarded with growing churches, and
in a few cases with fine church buildings. It is this kind of work
that heartens the Committee, and keeps us looking for the silvery
lining to our many clouds.
In other respects the year has been an unusual one, presenting
to the Committee a number of pecuHar problems ; and at times we
have been hard put to know just what was the right course to pur-
sue. But we have done the best we knew how, and we feel that
the Lord has led us in the way; at least we begin the new year with
a bright future, and hope for better things ahead.
One of the serious problems which we have had to face this
year was the changing of men on the field, and the keeping of the
churches supplied with suitable men. We began the year rejoicing
that arrangements had been completed whereby every Home Mis-
sion field in the Presbytery would be supplied. That happy arrange-
ment had hardly begun until this man and that began to make a
change. As a result we have had more vacant fields during the last
half of the year than for years before. Special effort is being put
forth by our Superintendent just at this time to remedy this situa-
tion. The problem is to find suitable men for our work. The ^ork
is hard, and we are limited to such low salaries that it is hard to
get just the kind of men we want for our Home Mission fields.
During the year the church buildings at Candor, Norman, and
the Plaza have been completed and they are now being used with
telling effect for the Kingdom and our Church in their respective
localties.
Wilmore is building a fine new brick building. Their location
is most ideal, being out in the residential section of that part of the
city, and at five points. It has a commanding position for all that
section. Their building when completed will cost them about $15,000
in addition to the lot for which they paid $3,600. This church is also
in sore need of a manse and the congregation is now forming some
plans looking in that direction. This is one of those churches
where both pastor and people are working with all their might to
complete their church plant and build up the Kingdom in that sec-
tion of the city. Your committee has been able to assist them in
their building program only to the extent of $1,000. We wish we
had been given the funds so we could have done more.
The Marshville Church will build their new manse right away.
They are hoping to get some money from the Assembly's Home
Mission Committee to help them do it. They need help for they
have been carrying a heavy church debt for several years. This is
but one of the many reminders of how seriously your own Home
Mission Committee is in need of an adequate church and manse
building fund.
We now have 47 churches under the care of the Home Mission
Committee, and six mission points. These are grouped into 19 sep-
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arate pastoral charges. Reports from the men of the field show
that there has been received into the Home Mission churches on
profession of faith 195, and by letter 100, making a total of 295. This
total may be slightly changed when it is compared with the actual
statistics of these churches, as sent to Presbytery.
The following churches, or groups, are vacant except for tem-
porary supplies: North Charlotte; Troy, Wadeville, and Star;
Unionville, Bethlehem, and Midland; Roberdell, Cameronian, and
Brainard; Peachland and Polkton ; Morven, Camden, and Lilesville.
North Charlotte is being temporarily supplied by Rev. J. G.
Garth, and Mark's Creek by Dr. Lynn R. Walker, of Hamlet. The
committee appreciates the fine work that is being done by these
brethren and these churches are happy to have them. Candor, Bis-
coe, and Macedonia have called Rev. A. L. McDuffie, of Manchester,
Iowa (U. S. A. Church), and he has accepted the calls, and expects
to be on the field by the middle of May.
Finances
Total receipts from the churches last year amounted to $18,-
664.76 as compared to $18,731.59 for the same period the year before.
Total receipts from all sources, including balance of last year,
amounted to $20,858.34. Total expenditures for the year amounted
to $18,782.14, leaving a balance on hand at the beginning of this year
of $2,076.20.
We are glad to be able to report a balnce on hand with which to
begin the year. We propose to keep out of debt if it is at all pos-
sible, and the balance will all be needed to pay salaries in the first
few months of the year when receipts are usually very small. We
are able to report a balance then only because of the many vacant
fields which we have had during the year ; and because we have
constantly turned a deaf ear to the call for help in church and manse
erection. For instance at the last regular meeting of the commit-
tee for the year urgent requests came, pleading with us to help in
the building of churches and manses to the amount of over $7,500.
We helped a little, but it is an exceedingly little bit that we can
spare from the general fund for work of this kind. If our fields
were regularly supplied, we would not have a cent for this work. So
the committee again calls upon the Presbytery to furnish it with an
adequate church and manse erection fund, or place this particular
part of the work under the care of another committee. That fund
should not be less than $25,000 to start with. It could be loaned out
to weak churches at a low rate of interest, say 4 per cent, to be
returned over a long period of time and no man could tell the value
of just such a fund in days to come.
Polices
For the information of the Presbytery, and especially for the
younger men coming into the Presbytery, we restate a few of the
policies of the committee, all of which have been approved by the
Presbytery on former occasions.
I. It is the policy of the committee to reduce all appropriations
to the fields each year 10 per cent. This is not done that the men
on the field shall receive less salary, but that the churches served
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shall make up this difference, and that they may serve as a stimulus
to the churches to become self-supporting, and at the same time it
releases funds to be used in developing new^ fields. At the last meet-
ing of the Synod's Home Mission Committee this action of our com-
mittee w^as adopted as the policy of Synod. There is a loud call go-
ing up over the state urging churches that have long been receiving
Home Mission money to bend every effort to become self-support-
ing. In the future your committee will want to know the reason for
not enforcing this principle in any given field, or it will be applied.
2. The committee expects every pastor engaged in Home Mis-
sion work to live on the field he serves.
3. The committee will expect all applications for aid in building
churches and manses to be made in writing. Such applications must
show cost of building contemplated and the amount of money al-
ready raised for the same. The committee must formally pass on
all applications before they can be held as binding for appropria-
tions.
4. Churches receiving aid from the Home Mission Committee
are expected to pay in full their apportionment to Presbytery's Home
Missions.
Recommendations
We offer the following recommendations :
1. That Rev. A. A. Walker be re-elected Superintendent of
Home Missions.
2. That Rev. R. J. Mcllwain be re-elected EvangeHst of Union
and Anson counties.
3. That a new group be formed in Richmond County to con-
sist of Marks Creek, Marston, Rourks Chapel, and McLean Me-
morial. Leaving Ellerbe, Mt. Carmel, and Norman in one group,
and Brainard, Cameronian, and Roberdell in another. This re-
grouping to take effect in the Fall.
4. That Presbytery grant the following supplies : Pageland,
Beulah, and Salem, W. P. Chedester; Stanfield, T. F. Huneycutt;
Baden and Palestine, A. S. Anderson.
5. That Presbytery grant the committee the privilege of em-
ploying J. A. Mclntyre for the summer at Marston, McLean Me-
morial, and Rourks Chapel. The other church in this group, Marks
Creek, provided the Presbytery sees fit to grant this formation, is
being supplied for the time by Dr. Lynn R. Walker, of Hamlet. This
is why we are asking that this new grouping take effect in the fall.
Request is asked that the committee be alowed to employ W. G.
Thomas, a middler at Union Seminary, Richmond, Va., in the Eller-
be group for the summer; and T. F. Wallace a junior at Columbia
Seminary in the Bethlehem group for the summer.
6. That we express our appreciation for the loyal and enthu-
siastic support we have received from many pastors, churches,
church organizations, and individuals during the year.
6. That in view of the pressing needs of the work ; and the
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great importance of Home Missions as a foundation work for
building up the Kingdom not only here at home but even on the
Foreign Field, Presbytery urge each church, when at all possible, to
pay in full its apportionment to Presbytery's Home Missions, namely
15 per cent of the total benevolent budget.
7. That Presbytery approve the following appropriations for
the year 1927-28.
APPORTIONMENTS RECOMMENDED TO MECKLENBURG
PRESBYTERY FOR THE YEAR FROM MARCH 31, 1927
TO MARCH 31, 1928, BY THE HOME
MISSION COMMITTEE
Superintendent's Salary $ 3,000.00
Robinson and Allen 675.00
Cornelius and Bethel 300.00
Indian Trail and Siler 400.00
Marshville 700.00
Peachland and Polkton 900.00
Troy, Wadeville and Star 600.00
Wilmore 900.00
Ellerbe, Mt. Carmel and Norman 600.00
Roberdel, Brainard and Cameronian 600.00
Marks Creek, Marston, McLean Mem'l and Rourks Chapel 600.00
Oakboro, Locust, Stanfield and Morgan Memorial 450.00
Pageland, Beulah and Salem 500.00
Walkersville, Rehobeth, Bethany and Altan 400.00
Candor, Biscoe and Macedonia 700.00
North Charlotte 900.00
Unionville, Bethlehem and Midland 1,000.00
Plaza Church 300.00
Traveling expenses Superintendent and part of house rent 1,000.00
Incidental expenses 500.00
Salary of Secretary Synod's Stewardship 376.00
Wilmore Church Building Fund 1,000.00
Troy Church 2,000.00
Automobile Contingent Fund 500.00
Mt. Gilead Building Fund 500.00
Union County Evangelist 600.00
Contingent Fund for New Work 1,000.00
$21,001.00
J. M. WALKER, Chairman.
The Treasurer's Report, properly audited, is hereby attached:
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REPORT OF W. E. PRICE, TREASURER OF MECKLENBURG
PRESBYTERY HOME MISSION COMMITTEE
For the Year Ending March 31, 1927
Receipts
Balance from March 31, 1926 $ 2,113.58
Received from Churches 18,664.76
Dividends Commercial National Bank 24.00
Church and Alanse Erection Fund 56.00
$20,858.34
Disbursements
Paid to Workers to April i, 1927 $12,857.67
NorM^ood Church Building 200.00
Badin Church Building 1.500.00
Candor Church Building 400.00
Norman Church Building 500.00
Roberdell Manse 395-00
Note — M. & F. Bank 1,500.00
Note — $400.00 and Int. T. M. Hartsell (Locust Prop.) 504.97
Note — M. & F. Bank 500.00
Interest— M. & F. Bank 85.00
Postage — Superintendent and Treasurer 25,00
Printing 120.95
Auto Ins. & Ins. on N. Charlotte Church Building 67.50
Worker of Training School summer months 87.05
Traveling Expenses of Committee and Superintendent 39.00
Balance on Hand 2,076.20
$20,858.34
Liabilities
None.
Assets
Note — Statesville Avenue (Stock) $ 650.00
2 Shares Commercial National Bank 450.00
Dodge Touring Car 350.00
$1,450.00
Respectfully submitted,
W. E. PRICE, Treasurer.
Attest :
We have carefully audited the books of W. E. Price, Treasurer
Home Mission Committee, and find same correct as per above state-
ment.
J. O. THOMAS.
J. F. JAMISON, Auditors.
38 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
ANNUAL REPORT OF W. E. PRICE, TREASURER
BENEVOLENCES MECKLENBURG
PRESBYTERY
From April 1, 1926 to ApHI 1, 1927
Cause Receipts Disbursements Balance
Bible Society $ 126.20 $ 126.20
Barium Springs Orphanage 1,901.24 1,901.24
Church and Manse Erection _ — 56.00 56,00
Education and Ministerial Relief. 1,533.26 1,533.26
Schools and Colleges 1,927.13 1,927.13
Foreign Missions 6,796.81 6,796.81
Assembly's Home Missions 3,191.60 3,191.60
Synod's Home Missions 1,634.61 1,634.61
Presbytery's Home Missions
Balance April i, 1926 — $ 2,113.58
Receipts $18,744.76
$20,858.34 $18,856.14 $ 2,076.20
Training School 132.84 132.84
Sunday School Extension 1,000.27 1,000.27
Near East Relief 18.00 18.00
Spillman Salary 23.00 23.00
Presbyterial Tax 18.00 18.00
$39,217.30 $37,141.10 $ 2,150.20
W. E. PRICE, Treasurer.
Attest
We hereby certify that we have carefully checked the books of
W. E. Price, Treasurer of Mecklenburg Presbytery, and find same
correct as per statement above.
J. F. JAMISON, Auditors.
J. O. THOMAS.
The report was adopted.
The following report was adopted :
To the Presbytery of Mecklenburg, in session at Albemarle, April 13,
1927:
T. F. Grier, licentiate, begs leave to report as follows : That I have
supplied the churches of Waxhaw and Six-Mile Creek since last meeting
of Presbytery, preaching at Waxhaw twice a day on the first and third
Sabbaths of each month, and in the afternoon of the second and fourth
Sabbaths at Six-Mile Creek. In doing this work the licentiate has sought
and endeavored to follow the guidance of the Spirit.
Respectfully submitted,
T. F. GRIER.
Mr. Grier's diligence was commended and he was given per-
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mission to supply at Waxhaw and Six-Mile Creek till the fall
meeting of Presbytery.
At the request of the Carmel Church, a committee was ap-
pointed to investigate the advisability of dissolving the church.
The committee consists of H. E. Gurney, W. H. Johnstone,
J. G. Garth, and J. P. Sample, and is instructed to report at the
next adjourned meeting.
The Stated Clerk read the statistical report to the General
Assembly. The report was adopted and the clerk was permitted
to fill in for late reports of churches.
The Committee on Presbyterial Records report that we have ex-
amined the records and find nothing needing the attention of Presbytery.
(Signed) THOS. F. HUNEYCUTT.
J. F. STEPHENSON.
Motion was adopted that when we adjourn, we adjourn to
meet in the First Church, Charlotte, on June 6th, a 2 :00 p. m.
Invitation of St. Paul's Church for the Fall meeting of Pres-
bytery was accepted.
The Committee on Synod's Home Missions reported nothing
of interest to report.
. Rev. W. H. Frazer was appointed to preach the Presbyterial
Sermon at the Fall meeting.
The report of Trustees of Presbytery was placed on the
docket.
Second Tuesday, at 10 a. m., after meeting of Synod, was
set as time of Fall meeting.
Calling of the roll was dispensed with.
Presbytery adjourned, with a song, and the benediction.
J. W. STORK, Permanent Clerk.
Q. N. HUNEYCUTT, Temporary Clerk.
LYNN R. WALKER, Moderator.
Attest: J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
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ADJOURNED MEETING
December 6, 1926.
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in adjourned session at the
First Church, Charlotte, a 2 :00 p. m., and was called to order
by the Moderator, Rev. R. J. Mcllwain, constituted with prayer
by Rev. B. F. Yandell.
The following were present :
Ministers: C. C. Beam, C. H. Little, R. J. Mcllwain, J. M.
Walker, J. W. Stork, P. W. Wilson, L. W. Brown, I. E. Wal-
lace, J. C. McGehee, W. H. Johnston, J. F. Ligon, B. B.
Shankel, H. H. Cassaday, S. B. Lyerly, W. S. Hamiter, B. F.
Yandell, H. E. Gurney, W. B. S. Chandler, R. W. Culbertson,
T. F. Honeycutt, R. S. Burwell, J. Hector Smith, M. E. Pea-
body, S. B. Lyerly, J. W. Grier, A. S. Johnson, S. A. Ewart,
A. A. Walker, J. R. Bridges, A. A. McGeachy, J. G. Garth,
J. W. Stork.
Churches represented : J. W. Pharr, Charlotte Second ; W.
B. Bradford, Charlotte First, R. W. Blackwelder, Seversville;
J. A. Mclntyre, Ellerbe; C. B. Grier, Pineville; W. L. Sum-
merville, Thomasboro; J. P. Sample, Carmel; S. A. Wilson,
Steele Creek; J. M. Miller, Philadelphia; W. E. Price, Caldwell
Memorial ; W. A. Jamison, West Avenue.
Certificates were presented by Rev. Parks W. Wilson, of
West Jersey Presbytery, U. S. A., and Rev. B. Frank Yandell,
of Asheville Presbytery. Both of these brethren were examined
on Experimental Religion by the Moderator. The examination
on Theology was conducted by Dr. A. S. Johnson. The exami-
nation on Church Government was conducted by Rev. R. S.
Burwell. The examinations as a whole were sustained, and Mr.
Wilson and Mr. Yandell were received and enrolled, after sign-
ing the covenant.
Elder J. D. Ramsay, of the West Avenue Church, was
granted the privileges of the floor.
The calls of West Avenue and Seversville Churches for
Revs. P. W. Wilson and B. F. Yandell, respectively, were placed
in their hands and accepted by them.
The following commissions were appointed to install :
Dr. Johnson, Rev. J. F. Ligon, Dr. Somerville, and W. A.
I
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Jamison, December 19, 1926, at 3 :00 p. m., to install Rev. P. W.
Wilson at West Avenue.
Revs. J. G. Garth, J. F. Ligon, J. M. Walker, and Elder
R. W. Blackwelder were appointed to install Rev. B. Frank
Yandell at Seversville, at 3 :00 p. m., December 12, 1926.
Mr. J. D. Withrow, of the Badin Church, presented an ap-
plication to be received as a candidate for the ministry.
Mr. Withrow was examined on Personal Piety and Motives
for Seeking- the Ministry, by the Moderator, which being satis-
factory, he was received as a candidate for the ministry. The
charge was delivered by Dr. H. E. Gurney, and prayer was
offered by the Moderator.
The commission to install Rev. T. M. Stribling at Rocking-
ham reported as follows :
The commission appointed to install Rev. T. M. Stribling as pastor
at Rockingham performed this duty, November 28, 1926, at 7 :30 p. m.
Rev. L. R. Walker, D.D., presided, preached and propounded the consti-
tutional questions. In the absence of Rev. W. R. Coppedge, D.D., Rev.
C E. White charged both the pastor and the people. The other members
of the commission present were : Elders J. E. McLaughlin and A, N.
Graham.
C. E. WHITE, Clerk to Commission.
The committee to install Rev. W. H, Johnston at Amity, performed
this duty November 21st, at 3 :00 p. m. Rev. W. H, Frazer, D.D., pre-
sided, preached and propounded the questions ; Rev. L. W. Brown charged
the pastor, and Elder W. E. Price charged the people. Rev. A. S. John-
son, D.D., was unable to attend.
L. W. BROWN, Qerk of Commission.
The commission to install Rev. W. T. Smith at Bethel and
Cornelius reported as follows :
Commission to install Rev. W. T. Smith at Bethel and Cornelius
Churches, met at Bethel Church, November 21, 1926, at 11 o'clock, and
was constituted with prayer by the chairman, Rev. R. J. Mcllwain.
Present : Rev. R. J. Mcllwain, Rev. R. S. Burwell, Rev. J. W. Grier, and
Elders J. L. Choate. Mr. Grier was made clerk. Mr. Mcllwain preached
a sermon, presided and propounded the constitutional questionss. Mr.
Burwell charged the pastor and Mr. Grier the people. The commission
met at Cornelius at 2:30 p. m. the same day and proceeded with the in-
stallation services, following the same order as at Bethel, in the morning.
The commission to organize a church at Stevenson made an
additional report as to the election and ordination of officers :
The commission to organize a church at Stevenson School House
and which made a partial report to a former Presbytery, but was con-
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tinued to complete the organization by the election of officers, reports
that duty performed on April 25, 1926. The ordination and installation
were performed on May 2nd following. The officers installed are :
Elders: W. H. Presley, W, A. Elms, Frank Elms. Deacons: J. A.
Presley, Tom Yandel, Richard Kiker, Frank Kimbrell.
The commission to organize a church at Myers Park
reported :
The commission appointed at the Fall meeting of Presbytery to or-
ganize a Presbyterian Church in Myers Park, would present the follow-
ing report :
The commission met in the chapel of Queens College, Sunday morning,
November 7, 1926, immediately following Divine worship. The following
members were present : Revs. W. H. Frazer, G. F. Bell and C. C. Beam,
with Ruling Elders R. A. Dunn and J. Arthur Henderson. C. C. Beam
was appointed secretary.
The commission organized the church according to the Book of
Church Order, with a membership of 245.
Thos. McP. Glasgow and Hunter Marshall, Jr., were elected elders,
and Eddie E. Jones and Jno. A. Tate were elected deacons. Messrs.
Marshall, Glasgow, Jones and Tate, all of whom had already been or-
dained, were installed into office.
C. C. Beam, Secretary of Committee.
The church was enrolled.
Rev. R. W. Culbertson reported his attendance as Presby-
tery's representative to the Hawfields celebration, which was
accepted. This accounts for Mr. Culbertson's non-attendance
at the Fall meeting.
Rev. R. W. Culbertson offered a proposed overture to the
General Assembly touching the rights of a pastor moderating
a congregational meeting for the election of officers, which was
referred to the Standing Committee on Bills and Overtures, to
report at the next adjourned meeting, January 3, 1927.
Mr. Culbertson and Rev. J. M. Walker were added to the
Standing Committee on Bills and Overtures.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE OF ASSESSMENTS
The Committee of Assessments reported and the report was
adopted as follows :
We recommend that :
1. Inasmuch as 24 of our churches have failed to pay the assessment
for 1925-26, that the Stated Clerk be instructed to address an earnest and
urgent letter to each of these churches, informing them of the importance
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of this matter, and that Presbytery expects them to pay ; and the clerk is
to continue these communications with the delinquent churches by letter
and otherwise until a settlement is effected.
2. That in view of following estimate of receipts and disbursements
that the assessment of each church for 1926-27 shall be 23 cents per
member, based on the total membership.
The following is the financial statement :
Estimated Expense for Next Year : Balance in Bank, Dec. 1 __ $ 610.70
Stewardship Com. $1,039.00 Estimated returns this year
Stated Qerk 200.00 from delinquent churches 200.00
Permanent Qerk 30.00 Estimated payment from
Treasurer 100.00 churches, April 1, 1927,
General Assembly 1,247.00 at 23c — 3,584.32
Synod 233.00
Vacation Bible Cchools __ 300.00 Total $4,195.02
Printing Minutes 400.00 Less estimated expense
Other Printing, etc. 25.00 till April 1, 1927 75.00
Miscellaneous 50.00
$4,120.02
$3,624.00
An adjourned meeting of Presbytery was ordered for the
first Monday of January, 3rd, at 10 a. m., for prayer for Pres-
bytery's guidance in the work of stewardship, both ministers and
people, and at 2 :00 p. m., for a business session.
The week preceding the week of the Every Member Can-
vass was set apart for a week of prayer for the Every Member
Canvass.
The Stated Clerk was granted permission to add names
omitted from the roll of the Fall meeting.
Rev. Wilson W. Moore was granted permission to labor
outside our bounds till the Spring meeting.
A paper from 51 members of Sharon Church was read ask-
ing for a judicial commission to visit their church. A commit-
tee was appointed to confer with these petitioners as to the regu-
larity of their request. The Moderator was empowered to ap-
point the five members of the committee. The following were
appointed: Revs. J. W. Stork, J. W. Grier, J. M. Walker,
and Elders W. E. Price and William Anderson.
The clerk was empowered to purchase a safe for the keeping
of the records of Presbytery.
Rev. J. Hector Smith was granted a letter of dismission to
Pee Dee Presbytery.
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The minutes were read and approved.
Adjourned with prayer by Rev. J. Hector Smith.
R. J. McILWAIN, Moderator.
J. W. STORK, Permanent Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
Addenda to Fall Meeting at Banks :
The following should be added to the rolls : W. L. Wallis
(G. W. Neely), Tenth Avenue; F. S. McConnell (Bethel), L.
A. Marshall (Mulberry), J. P. Sample (Carmel).
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ADJOURNED MEETING
January 3, 1927.
The Presbytery of Mecklenburg met in adjourned session
in the First Church, Charlotte, January 3, 1927, at 10 a. m. The
Moderator, Rev. R. J. Mcliwain, presided. The meeting was
opened with prayer by Rev. C. W. Somerville, D.D. The fol-
lowing were enrolled :
Ministers: R. J. Mcliwain, S. B. McLean, J. W. Stork, A.
S. Johnson, J. R. Bridges, W. B. Mcllwaine, W. H. Frazer, C.
W. Somerville, R. W. Culbertson, A. A. Walker, Q. N. Huney-
cutt, W. T. Smith, B. F. Yandell, J. G. Garth, J. M. Walker,
H. H. Cassady, R. S. Burwell, W. H. Johnston, S. B. Lyerly,
W. B. S. Chandler, G. F. Bell, C. H. Rowan, H. E. Gurney, C.
E. White, W. C. Underwood, J. W. Grier, I. E. Wallace, C. H.
Little, A. A. McGeachy, L E. Wallace, L. W. Brown.
Elders: C. F. Spain (Cook's), C. A. Summerville (Paw
Creek), W. S. Biggers (Thomasboro), W. A. Jamison (West
Avenue), S. A. Wilson (Steele Creek), W. W. Faires
(Sharon), W. H. Belk (Monroe), J. W. Pharr (Second
Church).
The exercises were turned over to the Secretary of Steward-
ship, Rev. S. B. McLean, who conducted the special season of
intercession for Stewardship. The following program of devo-
tional talks was interspersed with songs and prayers :
The Need for More Knowledge of the Word of God, on the
Part of All of Our People : Rev. W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr.
The Need for a Deeper Consciousness of the Reality of God :
Dr. W. H. Frazer.
The Need for a Deper Sense of Sin: Dr. G. F. Bell.
The Need of a Deeper Love for Men : Dr. C. W. Somer-
ville.
The Realization of the Foregoing Needs as a Basis of Stew-
ardship: Rev. A. A. Walker.
Brief voluntary testimonies bearing upon above topics.
Rev. Yossip Benjamin, of Piedmont Presbytery, was invited
to sit as a visiting brother and introduced to Presbytery.
46 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
The privileges of the floor were extended to Mr. J. B. Spill-
man, Synod's Secretary of Stewardship.
Recess was taken until 2 :00 p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION
Presbytery met at 2 :00 p. m.
Reports of the installations of Rev. B. Frank Yandell, at
Seversville, and Rev. Parks W. Wilson, at West Avenue, were
received from the commissions appointed, as follows :
To the Presbytery of Mecklenburg :
Your commission to install Rev. P. W. Wilson as pastor of West
Avenue, met at the West Avenue Church at 3 :00 p. m., on Sunday, De-
cember 19th. The commission was opened with prayer. Rev. A. S.
Johnson presided, preached the sermon on 'A New Testament Church,"
and propounded the constitutional questions. Rev. J. F. Ligon charged
the pastor, and Rev. Dr. C. W. Somerville charged the people. Mr. W.
A. Jamison, elder, was present. The service was concluded with prayer
and the benediction.
Respectfully submitted,
J. F. LIGON, Secretary of Commission.
To Mecklenburg Presbytery :
The commission appointed to install Rev. B. Frank Yandell pastor
of the Seversville Presbyterian Church, met at 2:00 p. m., December
12th, and after prayer, was organized with Rev. J. G. Garth as chairman,
and J. M. Walker, secretary. Present : Rev. J. F. Ligon, Rev. J. G.
Garth, Rev. J. M. Walker, and Elder R. W. Blackwelder.
Rev. J. G. Garth presided and propounded the constitutional ques-
tions to pastor and people ; he also charged the pastor, and Rev. J. F.
Ligon preached the sermon, and Rev. J, M. Walker charged the people.
Service closed with the benediction.
The Committee on Preserving the Records of Presbytery
reported as follows :
PRESERVATION OF RECORDS OF PRESBYTERY
In accordance with the instructions of Presbytery, your Committee
on preserving the records of Presbytery has purchased an iron fireproof
safe. The safe is a safe cabinet, manufactured by one of the best com-
panies producing fireproof safes, the Safe Cabinet Company, of Marietta,
Ohio. The safe purchased is guaranteed to stand fire five hours, under
test, and is listed under an Underwriters B label. It has been tested.
The safe was purchased second-hand from the Peerless Products Co.,
of Charlotte, which was going out of business, and which not 12 months
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 47
before this date, purchased the safe at dealers' price, for $196. Your
committee paid $150 for the safe.
The records have been brought from the Mecklenburg County Reg-
ister of Deeds office, and taken from the trunk which contained them and
deposited in the fireproof safe, which is located in the office of the present
Stated Clerk, in the building occupied by the Presbyterian Standard Pub-
lishing" Company, which is a one-story building, of brick, which under-
writers estimate would not burn five hours in case of fire.
The records so deposited are as follows :
1. Nine manuscript volumes of minutes, beginning with the organi-
zation of Mecklenburg Presbytery by the Synod of North Carolina, out
of the bounds of Concord Presbytery, in the parlor of Mrs. Robert Pear-
son, in Morganton, N. C, at 11:30 a. m., October 16, 1869, and closing
with the called meeting of June 20, 1913, at First Church, Charlotte.
2. Two bound volumes of printed minutes, from the 87th stated
session, held in Albemarle, April 8-10, 1913, to the 112th stated session,
held in Thomasboro Church, September 15-16, 1925,
3. A number of copies of minutes of various dates, and many papers
containing accounts of anniversaries of churches, etc.
Rolls of churches and ministers.
Sundry other minor articles, such as gavels, manuals, etc.
Respectfully submitted,
J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk,
A. A. WALKER,
W. E. PRICE,
Committee.
The Committee on Bills and Overtures made a report as
follows :
OVERTURE TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING IN
EL DORADO, ARKANSAS, IN MAY, 1927
The Presbytery of Mecklenburg respectfully overtures the General
Assembly to answer the following question :
Does a pastor moderating a congregational meeting in his own church,
have the right to cast the deciding vote of the congregation in case of a
tie?
Q. N. HUNEYCUTT, Chairman.
The report was adopted and the overture was ordered to be
sent to the Assembly. Rev. W. H. Frazer, D.D., asked that his
dissenting vote be recorded.
SHARON CHURCH
The committee appointed to advise with certain petitioners of
48 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
Sharon Church reported, and the report was received, and is as
follows :
The committee appointed to advise with the petitioners from Sharon
Church, met at the office of W. E, Price, December 22, 1926, at 10 a. m.
Present: Revs. J. W. Stork, chairman, J. M, Walker, J. W. Grier,
Elders W. E. Price and William Anderson. Opened with prayer by Rev.
J. M. Walker. The petitioners were advised to present their request to
the Session of Sharon Church that the Session might send the petition to
the Presbytery or an appeal therefrom could be legally made.
The pastor was requested to call the Session to meet prior to January
3rd, and notify the petitioners when and where they might appear before
them.
W. E. PRICE, Secretary.
A paper was read from Sharon Church leaving the matter to
Presbytery to act as it saw wise. The Presbytery passed the
following resolution :
The Presbytery, being informed that certain evils exist in Sharon
congregation, and in accordance with the Book of Church Order (1925),
page 35, paragraph 76, citing the duties of Presbytery, "To visit churches
for the purpose of inquiring into and redressing evils that may have arisen
in them," when it adjourns, shall adjourn to meet at Sharon, Thursday,
January 20th, at 10 a. m.
The Clerk was instructed to inform the Session of Sharon
Church of the coming meeting and ask that they give notice to
the congregation on the two Sabbaths preceding the meeting.
A day of prayer for Stewardship was appointed for the first
Monday of March, at 10 a. m.
In response to a petition from the Woman's Auxiliary of
Sharon Church, hat a man of God be appointed to meet with
them and pray with them, the Clerk was directed to write them
asking their prayers for Divine guidance in the coming meeting
of Presbytery.
The minutes were read and approved.
Presbytery adjourned with prayer by Rev. J. W. Grier, to
meet at Sharon Church, Tuesday, January 20th, at 10 a. m.
R. J. McILWAIN, Moderator.
J. W. STORK, Permanent Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 49
ADJOURNED MEETING
Sharon, January 20, 1927.
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in adjourned session at Sharon
Church, Thursday, January 20, 1927, at 10 a. m. Devotional
exercises were led by Rev. G. F. Bell, D.D.
The Presbytery was called to order and led in prayer by the
Moderator, Rev. R. J. Mcllwain.
The following members were enrolled :
Ministers : R. J. Mcllwain, J. G. Garth, J. W. Stork, H. E.
Gurnev, D.D., W. B. S. Chandler, M. E. Peabody, A. S. John-
son. D.D. A. R. Shaw, D.D., P. W. Wilson, B. Frank Yandell,
W. H. Johnston, R. W. Culbertson, J. R. Bridges, D.D., L. W.
Brown, W. S. Hamiter, J. W. Grier, S. B. McLean, A. A.
Walker, C. H. Little, W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., G. F. Bell, D.D.,
J. F. Ligon, H. H. Cassady, R. S. Burwell, W. P. Chedester,
B. B. Shankel, W. H. Frazer, D.D., S. A. Ewart, S. B. Lverly,
J. M. Walker, I. E. Wallace.
Churches represented : C. L. Abernethy, Sugaw Creek ;
N. C. White, St. Paul; J. M. Miller, Philadelphia; S. A. Wilson,
Steele Creek ; L. A. Marshall, Mulberry ; J. P. Sample, Carmel ;
J. W. Monteith. Huntersville ; W. L. Summerville, Thomas-
boro ; J. Archie Mclntyre, Ellerbe ; W. A. Jamison, West Ave-
nue; W. B. Bradford, Charlotte First; J. O. Stancil, Amity;
C. O. Howard, Providence; O. W. Potts, Banks; C. A. Sum-
merville, Paw Creek ; W. L. Wallis, Tenth Avenue ; G. B. Chap-
man, Caldwell Memorial ; C. B. Grier, Pineville ; R. R. Grier,
Central Steele Creek; W. W. Farris, Sharon; W. B. Reid,
Westminster.
Moved and carried that the Presbytery now look into the
disturbed conditions existing in Sharon Church.
The Session and former Board of Deacons were requested
to appoint one each to represent their causes before Presbytery,
and that the Protestants be heard first, the Session second, the
Pastor third.
The Moderator was appointed to represent the Presbytery at
the opening of the new Presbyterian church at Mt. Gilead, April
10, 1927.
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50 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
The Presbytery was led in prayer by Rev. A. S. Johnson,
D.D., seeking Divine guidance.
Mr. A. Q. Alexander represented the former Board of Dea-
cons, and read a paper.
Ruling Elder T. F. Black represented the Session, and spoke
briefly.
• Recess was taken until 2 :00 p. m. for lunch and to give the
Session opportunity to reply in writing.
Presbytery reconvened at 2 :00 p. m., and was led in prayer
by Rev. Oscar Sample.
The Session asked for more time, and was granted an addi-
tional hour and a half.
Clarence T. Carr, by request, led a song service.
Rev. J. G. Garth, by request, preached before Presbytery
on he subject: "Life's Margins and Their Spiritual Values."
Ruling Elder R. C. Brown rendered the answer of the Ses-
sion to camplaints in a paper.
J. Lee Phillips spoke, urging both parties to unite for the
sake of harmony and peace.
Ex-Deacon Ray Lee spoke, outlining his attitude.
Mrs. R. C. Brown and J. T. Samonds also spoke. "
A motion was made that all who desired a reconciliation in
the Church assemble at one corner of the building. A large
number of the members of Sharon Church responded. The
pastor and sessions then walked over to where the ex-deacons
were standing to receive them, and offered their hands in mutual
confession of faults and request for forgiveness, and the deacons
received them and responded in like sentiments.
The Session of Sharon Church was requested to call a con-
gregational meeting in the near future to elect deacons, and also
requested that the church re-elect the eight former deacons who
had resigned.
(NOTE : This record was corrected in the adjourned meet-
ing of March 7, 1927.— Stated Clerk).
The minutes were read and approved.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 51
Presbytery adjourned to meet at Charlotte First Church, at
10 a. m., the first Monday of March.
Adjourned with Doxology and prayer by the Moderator.
J. W. STORK, Permanent Clerk.
R. J. McILWAIN, Moderator.
Attest: J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
CALLED MEETING
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in called session at the First
Church, Charlotte, N. C., Monday, February 7th, at 12 o'clock.
The Moderator, Rev. R. J. Mcllwain, called the meeting to
order, and opened with prayer by Rev. S. A. Ewart.
The following were enrolled :
Ministers: Lynn R. Walker, W. B. S. Chandler, J. M.
Walker, J. F. Ligon, G. F. Bell, M. E. Peabody, R. W. Culbert-
son, A. S. Johnson, W. H. Johnston, C. H. Rowan, S. A. Ewart,
J. W. Grier, G. C. Huntington, S. B. McLean, A. A. Walker,
C. E. White, W. C. Underwood, B. F. Yandell, T- W. Stork,
R. S. Burwell, J. G. Garth, P. W. Wilson, R. J. Mcllwain, C.
H. Little, S. B. Lyerly.
Elders: W. B. Reid, Westminster; W. A. Jamison, West
Avenue; G. B. Chapman, Caldwell Memorial; J. W. Pharr,
Second Church.
The following call was read and found in order :
The Constitutional requirements having been met, Mecklenburg Pres-
bytery is called to meet at 12 noon, Monday, February 7, 1927, at the
First Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, N. C. to transact the following
business :
1. To hear the request of Rev. G, F. Bell, D.D., to dissolve his pas-
toral relation with Caldwell Memorial Church.
2. To inquire as to the attitude of the Church to this request.
3. To dissolve the pastorate, if the way is clear.
4. To dismiss Rev. G. F. Bell, D.D., to Louisville Presbytery, he
having been called to Crescent Hill Church, Louisville, Ky.
5. To transact any business growing out of the above.
R. J. McILWAIN, Moderator.
J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
52 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
January 21, 1927, Monroe, N. C.
Rev. P. W. Wilson was elected temporary clerk.
Dr. Bell requested Presbytery to dissolve the pastoral rela-
tion between himself and Caldwell Memorial Church, that he
might accept a call to Crescent Hill Church, Louisville, Ky.,
effective February 15th.
It was moved that the request be granted. Pending the
vote, the Church was heard from, and Elder G. B. Chapman
stated that the Church concurred in the request, and read reso-
lutions of regret and good-will adopted by the Church.
The motion was carried and the pastorate dissolved.
Dr. Bell was then granted a letter of dismission to Louisville
Presbytery.
A resolution of appreciation of Dr. Bell was offered.
Pending the discussion of this motion, many feeling remarks
of appreciation for Dr. Bell as a friend, a preacher and a Pres-
byter were made, to which Dr. Bell responded in kind. The
resolution was adopted.
Presbytery then adjourned with prayer, after reading the
minutes and calling the roll.
P. W. WILSON, Clerk Pro-Tem.
R. y. McILWAIN, Moderator.
, Attest: J. G. GARTH. Stated Clerk.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 53
ADJOURNED MEETING
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in adjourned session at the
First Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, Monday, March 7, 1927,
at 10 a. m., the following being present :
Ministers: G. C. Huntington, R. J. Mcllwain, L. W.
Brown, R. W. Culbertson, J. G. Garth, J. W. Stork, Q. N.
Huneycutt, A. A. Walker, S. B. Lyerly, W. H. Frazer, M. E.
Peabody, W. T. Smith, W. B. S. Chandler, I. E. Wallace, S. B.
McLean, H. H. Cassady, C. W. Somerville, W. H. Johnston,
B. F. Yandell, P. W. Wilson, J. A. Caligan, R. S. Burwell,
C. H. Little, J. M. Walker, W. S. Hamiter, S. A. Ewart, H. E.
Gurney. W, C. Underwood, J. F. Ligon, W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr.,
A. R. Shaw, B. B. Shankel.
Churches represented : W. R. Long, Sugaw Creek ; W. E.
Price, Caldwell Memorial ; H. C. Alexander, Westminster ; Dr.
W. L. McKinnon, Wadesboro ; N. C. White, St. Paul ; W. T.
Wicker, Roberdell; H. T. Baldwin, Cameronian; Dr. R, H.
Lafferty, Charlotte Second ; W. W. Faires, Sharon ; S. E. Wil-
son, Steele Creek ; W. H. Belk, Monroe First.
Presbytery was constituted with prayer by Rev. S. B. Lyerly.
Rev. J. A. Caligan presented a letter of dismission from
Pee Dee Presbytery.
The Moderator examined him on Experimental Piety, which
was sustained.
Rev. W. H. Frazer, D.D., conducted the examination on
Theology, which was sustained.
Rev. M. E. Peabody conducted the examination on Church
Government, which was sustained.
The examination as a whole was sustained, and Rev. J. A.
Caligan was received and enrolled, having signed the obligations.
A call from the Wadesboro Presbyterian Church for Rev.
J. A. Caligan, for $1,800, was found in order, with exceptions to
be straightened out by the commission to install. The call was
placed in his hands and accepted by him.
The following commission was appointed to install Mr.
Caligan, on March 20th, at 11 a. m., at the Wadesboro Church:
Rev. A. A. Walker, to preside and propound the questions;
54 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
Rev. W. B. S. Candler, to preach; Rev. T. M. Stribling, to
charge the pastor; Rev. R. J. Mcllwain, Elder W. E. Price, to
charge the people, and Elder W. F. McQueen.
The commission was instructed to correct the terms of the
call relative to the use of the manse and the annual amount of
salary.
Rev. A. H. Atkins, D.D., was granted a letter of dismission
to Muhlenburg Presbytery.
Rev. C. C. Anderson was granted a letter of dismission to
East Alabama Presbytery.
Rev. W. H. Frazer, D.D., formerly appointed to preach the
doctrinal sermon at the Spring meeting, owing to sickness in the
home, was requested to speak at the Fall meeting instead of the
Spring meeting.
The unfinished business regarding the adjustment of matters
at Sharon was taken up. Rev. C. H. Little was requested to
explain what had been done.
The matter was docketed for consideration at 2 :00 p. m.
On motion the Presbytery proceeded to the observance of a
season of intercession for Stewardship, after being led in prayer
by five brethren, Rev. W. B. S. Chandler spoke, by appoint-
ment, on Prevailing Prayer, Rev. J. G. Garth spoke on Fasting
and Prayer, and Rev. W. T. Smith spoke on the Problems of
Finances Before the Church Just Now. Numerous prayers
were interspersed.
Recess was taken until 2 :00 p. m.
Presbytery reconvened at 2 :00 p. m. and was led in prayer by
Rev. W. C. Underwood.
CORRECTED MINUTES
The minutes of the adjourned meeting at Sharon, January
20th, were corrected, to read, as below:
Resolved, That the Session of Sharon Church be requested to call
a meeting of the congregation as early as possible for the purpose ot
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 55
electing the original eight (8) deacons and no others, if the way be clear,
and that they be reinstated.
W. H. FRAZER.
The roll was called and all present who were present when
the action was taken at Sharon, January 20th, declared this reso-
lution to be the exact action of Presbytery.
Presbytery then entered into executive session, with a gen-
eral agreement that members present would not divulge what
was said.
After full discussion, no decision having been reached, it was
moved and carried that the matter of investigating the evils
reputed to be exising in Sharon Church be docketed as unfin-
ished business to be taken up at the Spring meeting of Pres-
bytery.
After the roll call and reading of the minutes. Presbytery
adjourned to meet in stated session at Albemarle Church, April
12, 1927, at 7 :30 p.m.
R. J. McILWAIN, Moderator.
J. W. STORK, Permanent Clerk.
Attest: J. G. GARTH, Stated Qerk.
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14. Men's Work— P. S. Gilchrist, C P. Brown, H. J. Spencer, J. M.
Oldham, J. P. Marsh, M. E. Trotter, J. M. Harris.
15. Sessional Records— R. S. Burwell, R. W. Culbertson, Q. N.
Huneycutt, W. T. Smith, and five Elders.
16. Examinations:
(i) Experimental Piety — The Moderator.
(2)Academic Studies — R. W. Culbertson.
(3) Languages — Latin Thesis and Greek Exegesis — C. W. Somer-
ville, J. W. Grier.
(4) Natural and Exact Sciences— H. E. Gurney, C. H. Little.
(5) Mental and Moral Philosophy, Logic and Rhetoric — W. H.
Frazer, W. B. S. Chandler.
(6) Theology — A. S. Johnson, A. A. McGeachy.
(7) Church History— J. M. Walker.
(8) Church Government and Sacraments — M. E. Peabody, R. S.
Burwell.
TRUSTEES OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
1. Davidson — R. A. Dunn, H. N. Pharr — terms expire 1928; A. A.
McGeachy, J. P. Matheson, W. H. Belk — terms expire 1927.
2. Queens— A. A. McGeachy, T. M. Glasgow, J. L. Choate, P. S.
Gilchrist — terms expire 1928; J. Arthur Henderson, E. E. Jones,
A. J. Crowell — terms expire 1929; E. A. McCausland, J. W. Mc-
Clung, Hunter Marshall — terms expire 1927.
3. Albemarle — M. J. Harris, A. C. Huneycutt, A. E. McCausland —
terms expire 1928; R. J. Mcllwain, F. S. Neal, W. H. Belk—
terms expire 1929; J. M. Harry, J. W. Stork, J. H. McCrae, Jno.
MINUTES
OF
MECKLENBURG
PRESBYTERY
116th STATED SESSION
St. PauPs, Charlotte, N. C.
ADJOURNED MEETINGS
At First Church, Charlotte, N. C.
June 6, 1927, July 18, 1927, September 19, 1927
CALLED MEETINGS
At First Church, Charlotte, N. C.
August 5, 1927, August 31, 1927
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DIRECTORY
Rev. J. M. Walker, Moderator Charlotte, N. C.
Rev. J. G. Garth, Stated Clerk Charlotte, N. C
Rev. J. W. Stork, Permanent Clerk Mt. Gilead, N. C.
W. E. Price, Treasurer Home Missions Charlotte, N. C.
Trustees of Presbytery— W. H. Belk, H. C. Alexander, J. L. Choate.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Presbytery*s Home Missions — J. M. Walker, C. G. Long, W. B. S.
Chandler, C. H. Rowan, Lynn R. Walker, C. H. Little, F. S.
Neal, W. H. Belk, T. J. Smith, C. P. Brown, W. E. Price, J. F.
Ligon, Dr. R. H. Lafferty.
PERMANENT COMMITTEES
1. Foreign Missions^-E. G. Gammon, C. G. Long, W. L. Wallis,
J. Arthur Henderson, M. B. Spier.
2. Assembly's Home Missions — J. F. Ligon, C. H. Little, A. S.
Anderson, Jno. B. Ross.
3. Christian Education and Ministerial Relief — J. W. Grier, L. W.
Brown, J. W. McClung.
4. Religious Education — General Chairman : S. B. Lyerly.
(i) Children's Division: W. M. Wilcox, W. E. Price.
(2) Young People's Division : J. G. Garth, M. E. Peabody, F. H.
Bierman.
(3) Leadership Training: W. S. Hamiter, P. W. Wilson, H. J.
Spencer.
(4) Sunday School Extension : P. W. Wilson, G. M. Beaty, Dr.
R. H. Lafferty.
5. Bible Cause— S. B. Lyerly, J. W. Stork, Dr. H. Q. Alexander.
6. Synod's Home Missions— L E. Wallace, B. B. Shankel, C. H.
Caldwell, D. S. Monteith.
7. Orphans' Home — W. H. Johnston, R. W. Culbertson, Wm.
Anderson, W. A. Jamison.
8. Schools and Colleges— C. R. Nisbet, L E. Wallace. B. F. Yandell,
J. R. Bridges, Beatty Faires, G. M. Rose, Jr.
9. Sabbath and Family Religion— R. J. Mcllwain, B. B. Shankel.
W. S. Hamiter, Thos. Spratt, Wm. Ross.
10. Evangelism— A. A. Walker, C. E. White. T. G. Hardie.
11. Men's and Women's Societies — L. R. Walker, W. C. Underwood,
J. R. Irwin.
12. Auditing — J. F. Jamison, J. O. Thomas.
13. Stewardship— S. B. McLean, H. E. Gurney, W. H. Frazer, L. R.
Walker, W. E. Price, M. B. Spier, F. S. Neal, J. H. Wearn.
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MINUTES
OF
MECKLENBURG
PRESBYTERY
116th STATED SESSION
St. Paul's, Charlotte, N. C.
ADJOURNED MEETINGS
At First Church, Charlotte, N. C.
June 6, 1927, July 18, 1927, September 19, 1927
CALLED MEETINGS
At First Church, Charlotte, N. C.
August 5, 1927, August 31, 1927
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STATED MEETING
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in the 116th Stated Session
Tuesday, October 18, 1927, at 10 o'clock, a. m., at St. Paul's
Church, Charlotte, and was opened with a sermon by the
retiring Moderator, Rev. Lynn R. Walker, D.D., from Gala-
tions 6:10. After which the sacrament of the Lord's Supper
was administered by Rev. C. R. Nisbet, D D., and Rev. C. H.
Rowan.
The following memorial was read :
MEMORIAL TO REV. W. R. COPPEDGE, D.D.
Rev. W. R. Coppedge, D.D., was born in Lynchburg, Va., August
I, 1851. His boyhood days were spent in Liberty, now Bedford,
twenty-five miles further west. At the age of fourteen he devoted
considerable time to the question of which church he would join.
The question, once settled, gave him no more trouble. Soon after
this, God's call to the ministry came to him and he was not dis-
obedient to the heavenly vision. Having been taught by an older sis-
ter and by his parents, he entered a preparatory school and was
assigned to the highest class. He continued his studies under Rev.
Roger Martin and Rev. A. Eubank for three years, then entered an
advanced class in college and secured his A. B. degree in two years,
but in so doing, he seriously injured his health by intense applica-
tion to study. In the autumn of 1873 he began his course at Union
Seminary in Virginia. About the middle of his second year, he had
to leave for want of means to meet his expenses. After teaching in
New Bern, N. C, for about two years, he resumed his seminary
course, finishing in April, 1877. He then preached as he had oppor-
tunity, and four years later he was formally licensed to preach. His
first charge was at Decherd, Tenn., but owing to unfavorable health
conditions, he did not remain long. He next served a group of
churches about Roanoke, Va. Later he moved to Floyd, Va., where
he served a group of churches and had charge of Oxford Academy,
where he prepared a number of young men and women for college.
In the autumn of 1887 he took charge of a group of churches at
Yanceyville, N. C, and was called from there to Graham, N. C, for a
pastorate of five years. In 1895 he came to Rockingham, N. C,
which continued to be his home until his death, April 10, 1927. Dur-
ing this time he served every church in Richmond County with one
exception. His wife, who was Miss Mary Duffy, of New Bern, N. C,
preceded him to the grave. He is survived by four sons. Dr. Neill
Coppedge, of Candor, N. C, Dr. Llewellyn Coppedge, missionary to
Mexico, Walter and Don E. Coppedge, of Rockingham. Another
son, Hervey, preceded his father to the grave by about six months.
He leaves also a number of grandchildren.
Dr. Coppedge was, for twelve years, superintendent of schools for
Richmond County, N. C, and greatly improved the school system of
the county. He was a man of good business judgment and com-
manded the respect of his fellowmen. He was a man among men.
As a Christian, he was devout; as a preacher, he was sound; as
a pastor, faithful. He was a good presbyter and painstaking in the
performance of his duties. He attended thirtv-nine consecutive
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meetings of Synod and could be depended on to do his full share of
committee work.
He was prominent in the lodge of Odd Fellows and served as
Grandmaster. He was honored by Synod as Moderator at States-
ville in 1906.
He lived for his Savior and his Church, and died triumphant in
his faith. Truly a good man has gone to his reward, and a dutiful
son to be with his Heavenly Father.
J. R. BRIDGES.
T. M. STRIBLING.
LYNN R. WALKER.
The memorial to Rev. W. R. Coppedge, D.D., which had
been read in connection with the communion service by
Rev. T. M. Stribling was adopted by a rising vote.
After prayer by the Moderator, the Presbytery was de-
clared open for business session.
The roll was called and the following found present :
ROLL
Ministers: C. C. Beam, J. R. Bridges (2), L. W. Brown
(2), R. H. M. Brown (2), R. S. Burwell (2), W. B. S. Chand-
ler (2), R. W. Culbertson, W. H. Frazer, E. G. Gammon, J.
W. Grier, J. G. Garth, W. S. Hamiter, Q. N. Huneycutt, T. F.
Huneycutt, G. C. Huntington (2), A. S. Johnson, J. F. Ligon,
C. H. Little, C. G. Long, S. B. Lyerly, W. H. Johnston, S. B.
McLean, R. J. Mcllwain, W. B. Mcllwaine, W. H. Mathe-
son, C. R. Nisbet, M. E. Peabody, L. H. Query, C. H. Rowan,
A. R. Shaw, T. M. Stribling, W. T. Smith, J. W. Stork, W. C.
Underwood, A. A. Walker, J. M. Walker, Lynn R. Walker,
L E. Wallace, C. E. White, P. W. Wilson, B. F. YandelL— 41
Ministers absent, 23.
Churches represented : J. W. Lyerly, Albemarle ; C. M.
Hutchison, Amity ; G. S. Howey, Banks ; A. L. Brown, Beth-
el ; Ray Clontz, Bethlehem; F. H. Bierman, Caldwell Me-
morial ; H. T. Baldwin, Cameronian ; C. B. Choate, Central
Steel Creek ; F. O. Hawley, Charlotte First ; R. H. Lafferty,
Charlotte Second ; W. D. Cox, Cook's Memorial ; J. I. Proc-
ter, Cornelius ; J. A. Mclntyre, EUerbe ; L. L. Braswell,
Tabernacle ; J. A. Lawing, Hopewell ; R. W. Alexander, Mal-
lard Creek ; J. C. Smith, Marshville ; J. H. Todd, Mulberry ;
Geo. E. Wilson, Myers Park ; W. A. Douglass, Newell ; S. A.
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McCord, Paw Creek ; A. M. Galloway, Plaza ; W. A. Rogers,
Pineville ; H. Q. Alexander, Providence ; C. B. Cross, Robin-
son ; J. E. Allen, Seversville ; R. C. Brown, Sharon; W. B.
Choate, Steele Creek; A. W. Pierson, St, Paul; C. L. Aber-
nethy, Sugaw Creek ; C. S. Morrison, Tenth Avenue ; W. S.
Biggers, Thomasboro ; J. C. Richardson, Turner ; J. W. Mc-
Cain, Waxhaw; M. L. Campbell, West Avenue; J. P. Kirk-
patrick, Westminster; W. A. Howie, Williams. — 37.
Total attendance, 78; churches not represented 56.
Rev. J. M. Walker was elected Moderator and Rev. J. F.
Ligon Temporary Clerk.
Rev. R. A. McLeod, Rev. A. D. Carswell, of Fayetteville
Presbytery, Rev. C. C. Anderson, of East Alabama Presby-
tery, Frank Grier, of Bethel Presbytery, Rev. H. L. Bowlby,
of Morrison, Orange Presbytery, U. S. A., Rev. T. R. Alex-
ander, of Potomac Presbytery, Rev. W. L. Baker, of Con-
cord Presbytery, were invited to sit as visiting brethren.
The Committee on Orders reported, which was adopted.
Hours, 9 a. m. to 12:30 p. m., 2 p. m. to 6 p. m., 7:30 p. m.,
adjourn at will .
The first order of the afternoon was set to hear Dr.
Bowlby, of the Lord's Day Alliance.
The first order of the day, Wednesday, was set for
Schools and Colleges.
The report on Evangelism was set for 3 p. m., Tuesday.
Rev. C. W. Sommerville was excused from attendance on
on this meeting on account of the sudden death of his sister.
Prayer for the bereaved family was offered by Rev. S. B.
McLean.
The hearing of the Stewardship report was set for 4
o'clock this afternoon.
It was ordered that hereafter in calling the roll of the
ministers the seniority of ministers in becoming members
of Presbytery be followed.
A committee was appointed to revise the manual and
recommend a procedure for expediting the business of
Presbytery.
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Revising Presbytery's Manual
The following were appointed :
A. S. Johnson, J. G. Garth, I. E. Wallace, J. F. Ligon,
and F. H. Bierman.
Recess was taken until 2 p. m.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
Presbytery reconvened at, 2 p. m. and was led in prayer
by Rev. R. W. Culbertson.
The hearing of the report of the Executive Committee of
Home Missions was given the order following the report
on Stewardship.
The order of the day being to hear of the work of the
Lord's Day Alliance. Rev. Lynn R. Walker, D.D., was asked
to preside. Prayer was ofifered by Rev. A. S Johnson, D.D.
Dr. Harry L. Bowlby, General Secretary of the Lord's Day
Alliance, addressed the Presbytery.
A rising vote of thanks was tendered Dr. Bowlby for
his splendid address, which w^as referred to the committee
on Sabbath and Family Religion.
The Moderator appointed the following committees :
Standing Committees
Devotional: S. B. Lyerly and W. S. Big-gers.
Bills and Overtures: Lynn R. Walker, W. S. Hamiter,
C. H. Little, A. L. Brown, and C. B. Choate.
Judicial: C. H. Rowan, C. R. Nisbet, C. E. White, W. D.
Cox, and J. C. Smith.
Home Missions: P. W. Wilson, Chairman, Q. N. Huney-
cutt, J. W. Lyerly, C. M. Hutchinson.
Calls and Supplies: E. G. Gammon, L E. Wallace, F. H.
Bierman, W. B. Choate.
Leave of Absence: W. H. Matheson, W. A. Howie
Records of Presbytery: W. H. Johnston, R. H. Lafferty.
Minutes of Assembly: C. G. Long, B. F, Yandell, R. W.
Culbertson, J. A. Mclntyre.
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Presbytery's Assessments: T. M. Stribling, W. T. Smith,
A. R. Shaw, H. T. Baldwin, C. L. Abernathy.
Nominations: J. M. Walker, J. G. Garth, G. E. Wilson,
M. E. Peabody, J. W. McCain.
Thanks: W. B. Mcllwaine, M. L. Campbell.
A communication from Fayetteville Presbytery regard-
ing the establishment of a Junior College for boys was read
and referred to the Committee on Bills and Overtures.
The privileges of the floor were granted the committee
from Fayetteville Presbytery.
The orders of the day were moved back to give time to
hear this committee.
Rev. R. A. McLeod, Rev. A. D. Carswell, and Elder J. P.
Wiggins addressed the Presbytery.
Presbytery took the following action in view of these
speeches :
We recognize the importance of the Junior College in
our educational system and have heard Avith sympathetic
interest the presentation of this matter by the delegation
from Fayetteville Presbytery and would refer it to the
Committee on Bills and Overtures for further consideration
and recommendation.
Calls from Siler, Indian Trial, Hopewell, and request
from Newell for a supply were referred to the Committee
on Calls and Supplies.
Revs. W. B. S. Chandler, S. B. Lyerly, C. G. Long and Dr.
J. R. Bridges, William Anderson, W. L. Wallis, C. S
Harkey, and J. A. Mclntyre reported attendance upon the
General Assembly at El Dorado.
Two communications from the Stated Clerk at the Gen-
eral Assembly were referred to the Committee on Assem-
bly's Minutes.
Installation of E. G. Gammon at Myers Park
The commission authorized and instructed by the Mecklenburg
Presbytery to install the Rev. Edgar G. Gammon, D.D., as pastor of
the Myers Park Presbyterian Church, consisting of Rev. Wm. H.
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Frazer, Rev. C C Beam and Rev. A. A. Walker, and Ruling Elder
R. A, Dunn, begs leave to make the following report :
Commissioner A. A. Walker being unable to attend, on authority
of the Moderator of the Presbytery, Rev. J. R. Bridges, was sub-
stituted for Rev. A. A. Walker. Ruling Elder R. A. Dunn being un-
able to attend. Elder Geo. E. Wilson, Jr., substituted for Elder R. A.
Dunn, on request of the Moderator.
The commission met at the Myers Park Presbyterian Church on
Sunday morning, September i8, 1927, at 11 o'clock, and was con-
stituted with prayer by Rev. J. R. Bridges.
On invitation Rev. B. R. Lacy, D.D., President of the Union
Theological Seminary, preached the sermon. Rev. C. C. Beam
charged the pastor, and Rev. W. H. Frazer presided, propounded
the constitutional questions and charged the congregation.
At the conclusion of the service Rev. Edgar G. Gammon pro-
nounced the benediction.
Respectfully submitted,
W. H. FRAZER, Chairman of the Commission.
GEO. E. WILSON, JR., Secretary.
The report was adopted.
A communication from Barium Springs Orphanage was
received and referred to the Committee on the Orphanage.
A communication from several members of Sugaw
Creek Church was referred to the Judicial Committee.
The commission to organize the church at Euto re-
ported:
REPORT OF THE COMMISSION APPOINTED TO ORGANIZE
A CHURCH AT EUTO IN UNION COUNTY
The Home Missions Committee, together with the Superinten-
dent, having been appointed by the adjourned session of Mecklen-
burg Presbytery of September 19, 1927, as a commission to organize
a Presbyterian Church in Euto, in Union county, hereby submits
the following report :
The commission met in the Methodist church in Euto, Sunday
afternoon at 3 :oo p. m., of October 9th. The following members
were present: Revs. A. A. Walker, chairman, J. M. Walker, W. B. S.
Chandler, C. H. Little, J. F. Ligon, and C. G. Long, with Ruling
Elders W. H. Belk, W. E. Price, F. S. Neal, and T. J. Smith. C. G.
Long was appointed secretary.
Following a 'sermon by Rev. J. F. Ligon, the commission pro-
ceeded to the organization of the church according to the Book of
Church Order. Ten were received on profession of faith and bap-
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tism; four were received on re-statement of their faith in Jesus
Christ, and eighteen were received by certificate from other
churches, making a total membership of thirty-two..
The name of the church selected was Tabernacle Presbyterian
Church.
The following were elected, ordained and installed as Ruling El-
ders : L. L. Braswell, and H. B. Edwards. P. J. C. Efird vvas elected
and installed as an Elder having previously been ordained. The
election of Deacons was postponed to a future date. The charge to
the newly elected Elders was delivered by Rev. J. M. Walker.
C. G. LONG, Secretary.
Reception of candidates was fixed to follow the report of
the Stewardship Committee.
The Judicial Committee was excused to attend to the
business before it.
The Committee on Evangelism reported. Pending its
adoption Revs. J. W. Stork, W. T. Smith, Q. N. Huneycutt,
C. E. White and chairman A. A. Walker spoke. The report
and recommendations were adopted and prayer was offered
by Rev. W. H. Matheson.
REPORT ON EVANGELISM
The results of the evangeHstic meetings held so far this year,
under the direction of your committee, confirm our belief in the
efficacy of this department of our service. Even when there have
been no additions to the church through these meetings, the church
has received a new vision of service and power. We beheve that
the annual evangelistic services are to the work of the year what
the harvest time is to sowing and cultivation. It is both a time of
reaping and a time of testing.
On the recommendation of this committee. Presbytery made 35
assignments for meetings to be held this year. You committee has
received reports from 25 of these meetings, in a total of 185 days ;
with 146 professions of faith, and 90 additions by profession, and 30
by letter. Seventeen of these meetings were held by the ministers
assigned, and eight by others.
The committee has adopted the policy of placing the responsi-
bility for evangelistic meetings, as far as possible, upon the pastors
and churches where the meetings are to be held. To this end, we
are requesting all those pastors who have heretofore had preachers
assigned them to make their own arrangements, if possible, for their
meetings next year, between now and the spring session of Pres-
bytery. The committee, in the meanwhile, holding itself in readiness
to render any service that it may.
By the instruction of Presbytery your committee sent a return
card to every minister in the Presbytery, asking for an expression
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of his willingness to hold one or more meetings under the direction
of the committee. Only those ministers who replied in the affirma-
tive were assigned to meetings. The committee will follow that plan
this coming year.
We request Presbytery to reaffirm the recommendations made
at its meeting last fall; namely:
1. That Presbytery again emphasize the importance of a series
of evangelistic meetings in every church, at least once a year, if
practicable; and that careful and prayerful preparation be made
for these meetings, not only throughout the year, but in the several
weeks immediately preceding them; and that pastors be urged to
enlist their men, as far as possible, in personal evangelistic service.
2. That the churches under the care of this committee be re-
quested to suggest to the committee the names of men whom they
wish to have assigned to their churches for the year beginning
April I, 1928; and that these suggestions be sent to the committee
some weeks before the spring meeting of Presbytery,
3. That we call upon all our people to offer prayer in behalf of
these meetings ; and that God may richly bless the churches where
meetings are being held, the pastors, and the men conducting them.
A. A. WALKER.
C. E. WHITE.
The report of the Stewardship Committee was presented
by Rev. S. B. McLean. The report received and the recom-
mendations considered seriatim. The report was amended,
and was adopted as follows :
REPORT OF STEWARDSHIP COMMITTEE
The report of the Every Member Canvass for the year beginning
April I, 1927, which was submitted by your committee at the spring
meeting of Presbytery in April, 1927, and which is pubhshed in the
minutes of said meeting, shows that of the amount of $175,855 which
was apportioned to this Presbytery for benevolences for the cur-
rent year, the sum of $172,715 was subscribed and reported in said
canvass, the subscriptions thereby lacking $3,140 of equaling the
quota assigned to the Presbytery. But the amount of $172,715 re-
ported as subscribed in this Presbytery was subscribed by 61 of the
churches of the Presbytery, the remaining 32 churches having made
no report to the Presbyterial Secretary of Stewardship. Of' the 61
churches reporting subscriptions to the secretary, 2.2 reported as
having fully subscribed or oversubscribed their quotas. The com-
mittee believes that if all belated subscriptions were taken into con-
sideration, which were made in churches having the canvass and
were not included in the original reports to the secretary, the entire
apportionment of $175,855 to this Presbytery would be more than
covered. These facts clearly indicate the importance of the Every
Member Canvass being made and completed promptly in each
church and the results reported to the Secretary of Stewardship
with due diligence and dispatch. The total number of reported sub-
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scriptions to Benevolences for the current year was 7.050 out of a
total church membership in the Presbytery of 15,047- For the pre-
ceding fiscal year, the number of subscriptions to Benevolences re-
ported was 7,400.
The total amount of the Budget for Current Expenses for the
current year reported by the churches of the Presbytery w^as $209,-
242 and the total amount reported as having been subscribed was
$196,305. The number of church members reported as having sub-
scribed to the Current Expense Fund of the various churches of the
Presbytery is 7,979.
Recommendations
1st. That the Benevolent Askings for the year beginning April
I, 1928, of the churches of Mecklenburg Presbytery, amounting to
$197,997, be adopted, and that all churches be urged to present these
askings to their congregations as a minimum amount to be raised
for the Benevolent Causes, and that the table of the Benevolent
Askings be printed and attached in the back of the minutes of the
fall meeting of Presbytery, as heretofore.
2nd. That the per centum for distribution of the Benevolent
Funds for the year beginning April i, 1928, be the same for the cur-
rent year, viz :
Per Cent
Foreign Missions 33.3
Assembly's Home Missions 16.
Christian Education and Ministerial Relief 7.5
Publication and Sabbath School Work 2.
Assembly's Training School .6
Bible Cause .6
60.
Synod's Home Missions 7.5
Barium Springs 7.5
Schools and Colleges 8.7
Union Theological Seminary 1.3
Presbytery's Home Missions 15.
40.
Total 100.
3rd. That the apportionments by the Presbytery to the various
churches for the Benevolent Causes for the year beginning April i,
1928, be as shown upon the statement below, which statement also
shows the amounts subscribed and paid by the individual churches
of the Presbytery for the year ending March 31, 1927, together with
the aggregate amounts subscribed and paid by the churches alto-
gether. From this summary it will be seen that the total amount of
Benevolences paid by the whole Presbytery during the last fiscal
year was $237,138, or about $45,ooo in excess of the whole apportion-
ment for next year for Benevolences.
4th. That the date for the Every Member Canvass for the next
fiscal year be March 11, 1928, in accordance with the recommenda-
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tion of the General Assembly; that the week preceding the date of
the Every Member Canvass be devoted to prayer and the instruction
of the congregation in the great needs and opportunities in our
Home and Foreign fields ; that every church if possible hold special
services each night from Monday through Friday of the week pre-
ceding the Canvass, and that a special program covering some part
of our Benevolent Work be presented each night by some organiza-
tion of the church, as recommended by our Synod; that every
church make diligent effort to accomplish the following ends, viz:
a subscription from every member for Benevolences, a subscription
from every member for the Church Budget for Current Expenses,
a full report of the canvass to the Presbytery at said spring meet-
ing. ^
5th. That the Stewardship Committee of the Presbytery be au-
thorized to promote and arrange for the holding of Stewardship
Conferences in the Presbytery if they shall deem it wise
6th. If it be the purpose of the Presbytery to continue the office
of Presbyterial Secretary of Stewardship, that the Presbyterial
Treasurer, out of the Tax Fund, pay the necessary expenses incident
to the conduct of the office, not exceeding $ioo, to be paid by the
Presbyterial Treasurer on statement furnished by the Secretary of
Stewardship.
7th. That the statistical table showing a comparative summary
for five years be printed on the last page of the minutes of the
Presbytery and that the Stated Clerk be instructed to prepare such
a table each year and printed in the same position in the minutes.
S. B. McLEAN,
Presbyterial Secretary of Stewardship.
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APPORTIONMENTS
Benevolences
Member- Year Ending
ship Church March 31, 1927
Subscriptions Paid
315— Albemarle $ 1,156 $ 1,934
25— Allen o
60— Altan 50 57
112 — Amity 360 462
126 — Badin 100 118
68— Banks 525 465
35— Bethany 50 40
158— Bethel 335 294
80 — Bethlehem 195 41
56 — Beulah o 36
35— Biscoe 45 5
78 — Brainard 58 o
750 — Caldwell Memorial 9,344 9,761
10 — Camden 8
66 — Cameronian 100 13
79 — Candor 125 24
47 — Carmel 562 314
85 — Central Steele Creek __ 1,000 1,348
1,050— Charlotte First 41,279 54,193
2,002 — Charlotte Second 50,346 101,722
123 — Cook's Memorial 441 665
71 — Cornelius . 200 124
80 — EUerbe 62 20
272— Hamlet 1,500 1,136
231 — Hopewell 340 719
310 — Huntersville 600 613
60 — Indian Trial 128 20
36 — Lee Park 40 19
II — Lilesville
55 — Locust yj
no — Macedonia 175
154— Mallard Creek 428 1,127
79 — Mark's Creek 25 103
94 — Marshville 250 149
26 — Marston 20 29
94 — Matthews 200 141
96— McGee 888 ^2>7
32— McLean Memorial ___
45 — Midland
345— Monroe First 3,290 19,891
57 — Morgan Memorial
57— Morven 295 560
76— Mt. Carmel 84 88
107— Mt. Gilead 415 282
137— Mulberry 1,128 1,208
255— Myers Park 1,419
no— Newell 789 509
22— Norman 23 68
55 — North Charlotte 200 45
Benevolent
Askings
Year Begin'g
April 1,
1928
Per Cap.
Total
6 $
1,890
I
25
I
60
4
448
3
7.7^
8
544
I
35
3
474
2
160
I
56
3
105
2
154
15
11,250
2
20
2
132
2
158
8
376
12
1,020
50
52,500
30
60,060
5
615
4
284
I
80
6
1,632
4
924
6
1,860
2
120
2
72.
2
22
2
no
2
220
8
1,232
4
316
3
282
3
78
3
202
8
768
I
2>2
I
45
15
5,175
I
57
10
570
2
152
3
321
8
1,060
25
6,375
6
660
3
66
2
no
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203 — Norwood 492 74
24— Oakboro 39 33
50— Pageland 53 7S
5 — Palestine
324— Paw Creek 1,800 2,122
28— Peachland 150 o
29— Pee Dee 150 109
153— Plaza 500 486
442 — Philadelphia 1,660 1,599
140— Pineville 815 744
109— Pleasant Hill 550 442
48— Polkton 150 45
15— Porter o 31
221 — Providence 400 498
125 — Ramah 250 303
46 — Rehoboth 47 6
74— Roberdel 100 o
155— Robinson 250 292
120 — Rockingham 238 399
16 — Rourk's Chapel 10
60 — Salem o 23
145 — Seversville 878 839
270— Sharon 1,330 2,077
100— Siler 221 94
S7 — Six Mile Creek 100 10
40 — Stevenson
23 — Stanfield o
II — Star 19 o
684— Steele Creek 6,800 6,297
301 — St. Pauls 1,646 1,354
327 — Sugaw Creek 1,727 2,552
524 — Tenth Ave 4,000 2,859
131 — Thomasboro 946 955
41— Troy 69
45 — Turner 40 51
42 — Unionville 90
III — Wadesboro 253 684
20— Wadeville 85
lOi — Walkersville 50 39
98 — Waxhaw 529 252
344 — West Avenue 1,200 1,871
587 — Westminster 2,494 7,942
148 — William's Memorial 900 1,053
83 — Wilmoore 372 186
3
609
I
24
2
100
2
10
6
2
..94^
5
145
3
459
4
1,768
6
840
4
436
2
96
2
30
4
884
4
500
I
46
2
148
3
465
5
600
2
32
I
60
6
870
8
2,200
2
200
2
74
2
80
2
46
2
22
10
6,840
5
1,505
10
3,270
10
5,240
4
524
3
123
2
90
3
126
8
888
2
48
2
202
6
598
6
2,064
IS
8,805
8
1,184
3
249
i5,047~Total _ $148,644 $237,130 $192,539
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BENEVOLENT ASKINGS
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fi
bo
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CO»
G M
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.SJii
Year Beginning
Apr. 1, 1927
bfi «
Per Cent. Amt.
Foreign Missions
Assembly Home Missions
Christian Edu. & Min. Relief.
Publication & S. S. Work ___.
Assembly's Training School _.
Bible Cause
Synod's Home Missions
Barium Springs
Schools and Colleges
Union Theological Seminary .
Presbytery's Home Missions .
77,160
27,410
11,535
3,573
892
1,082
14,809
39,377
38,920
22,500
33.3
16.
7-5
2.
.6
.6
7.5
7.5
8.7
1.3
15.
$ 58,511
28,119
13,198
3,510
1,074
1,074
13,198
13,198
15,299
2,287
26.388
65.896
31,662
14,841
3,950
1,187
1,187
14,841
14,841
17,216
2,575
29,685
Total $237,150 100. $175,856 $197,887
Report of E. M. C. — Amount sub. to Benevolences $172,715
Amount sub. to Cur. Expenses $196,305
William B. McSwain, of the Albemarle First Church,
after examination by the Moderator was received as a can-
didate for the ministry. After the obligation the charge
was given by Rev. J. W. Grier, and prayer was offered by
the Moderator.
Recess was taken until 7:30 p. m.
I
TUESDAY EVENING
Presbytery reconvened at 7:30 after a song service and
a prayer by Rev. W. T. Smith.
The report of the Executive committee of Home Mis-
sions was rendered by the chairman, Rev. J. M. Walker and
adopted. (See Appendix.)
The report of the commission on the transfer of Page-
land and Salem churches is as follows :
The Home Mission Committee, with the superintendent, A. A.
Walker, as chairman, acting as a commission to confer with Pee
Dee Presbytery relative to the transfer of the Pageland and Salem
churches to that Presbytery, cornmunicated with the Presbytery of
Pee Dee, requesting that a similar commission be appointed. In
response to our request, the Home Mission Committee of Pee Dee
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Presbytery was appointed to act as a commission. After some cor-
respondence the commission from Pee Dee Presbytery notified
your commission that is was not thought advisable to take any
action in the matter while the field in question was being supplied
by a member of Mecklenburg Presbytery, owing to the difficulty in
grouping.
We therefore recommend that the matter be dropped for the
present, with the understanding that it may be taken up again at a
later date.
The correspondence of the commission is in the hands of the
chairman, and is at the disposal of Presbytery.
. A. A. WALKER, Chairman.
The overture of Dr. H. Q. xAlexander on military train-
ing was taken from the docket and referred to the Commit-
tee on Bills and Overtures. The overture w^as as follows :
Resolved, That Mecklenburg Presbytery hereby disapproves of
the teaching of Military Science and Practice in College or High
School, and most respectfully requests officials of Colleges and High
Schools to discontinue this Course where it has been given in the
past, and to not add it to the present curriculum in schools wherein
it has not obtained in the past.
The Committee on Assembly's Minutes rendered its
report which was received and the recommendations adopt-
ed seriatim as amended.
The clause regarding the Historical Commission was
docketed until the Bills and Overtures Committee is heard.
The clause touching the Directory for Worship was
docketed for consideration at the spring meeting.
Rev. T. H. Mitchell presented a letter from Concord
Presbytery. Presbytery proceeded to the examination
looking to reception.
The examination on Experimental Religion by the Mod-
erator, the examination on Theology by Dr. W. H. Frazer,
and the examination on Church Governments and the Sacra-
ments by Rev. M. E. Peabody were each sustained.
The examination as a whole was sustained and Mr.
Mitchell was received, having signed the covenant.
Presbytery adjourned until 9 a. m. Wednesday. Closed
with prayer.
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WEDNESDAY— 9 A. M.
Presbytery reconvened at 9 a. m. and was led in devo-
tional exercises by Rev. G. C. Huntington.
The minutes of Tuesday's session were read and adopted
as corrected.
The report of the Board of Directors of Queens College
was received.
Dr. W. H. Frazer, President of Queens College was
heard. Vice-President L. Wilson Jarman, of Queens Col-
lege, was introduced and invited to speak to Presbytery.
The report and addresses were referred to the Commit-
tee on Schools and Colleges.
Calls and Supplies
The report of Committee on Calls and Supplies was
adopted as follows :
Your committee submits the following report:
Five communications have been received:
1. A call from the Siler Church for the pastoral services of Rev.
T. H. Mitchell, of Concord Presbytery.
2. A call from the Indian Trail Church for Rev. T. H. Mitchell.
3. A call from the Hopewell Church for the pastoral services
of Rev, T. C. Delaney, of the Presbytery of Florida.
These calls have been found in order, and the committee recom-
mends that they be placed in the hands of the Stated Clerk.
4. A request from the session at Newell that Rev. M. E. Peabody
be allowed to supply the church till spring meeting of Presbytery.
5. A request from the Mallard Creek Church for the services
of Rev. W. H. Frazer, D.D., as stated supply until the spring meet-
ing of Presbytery.
The committee recommends that the requests be granted.
Rev. T. H. Mitchell accepted the calls to Indian Trail and
Siler, and Presbytery appointed the following arrangements
for his installation :
The commission to install Rev. T. H. Mitchell pastor of
Siler and Indian Trail churches :
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Ministers : Rev. W. B. S. Chandler, Rev, B. B. Shankel,
Rev. R. J. Mcllwain, Rev. Q. N. Huneycutt, and Elders A.
W. Davis, of the Siler Church, and E. J. Stinson, of the
Indian Trail Church. Mr. Chandler to preside, preach and
propound the constitutional questions ; Mr. Shankel to
charge the pastor and Mr. Mcllwain to charge the people.
Time : October 30th, 3 p. m., at Siler and 7 :30 p. m. at Indian
Trail.
Rev. J. F. Ligon presented the following report :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ASSEMBLY'S HOME MISSIONS
Your committee on Assembly's Home Missions begs leave to
submit the following report :
For two years in succession the Assembly's Executive Commit-
tee of Home Missions was obliged to cut appropriations to Presby-
teries, schools and missions. This necessary reduction has not only
prevented the Committee from entering many inviting fields of serv-
ice, but has made impossible any enlargement in any department of
the Committee's many-sided work.
The Committee began the year, April i, 1927, with a bank in-
debtedness of $60,500. By order of the Assembly the appropriations
for the current year could not exceed the receipts for the year end-
ing March 31, 1927. The debt must be paid. If the receipts were not
sufficient for this purpose, the only alternative was to withhold the
amount from the fields until more adequate provision is made for
the support of this fundamental and far-reaching undertaking of
the Church.
The receipts to September 1st were $23,526 less than for the
same period last year. On this date the Committee had borrowed
and was paying interest on $133,195 to meet promises to the various
Presbyteries and institutions.
While the Committee was struggling with this deficit and en-
deavoring to meet the normal current demands of the work, the
unprecedented flood in the lower Mississippi Valley, — characterized
as the greatest peace-time disaster in the history of the nation, —
swept through portions of the Synods of Missouri, Arkansas, Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana, bringing widespread damage to churches
and manses and causing great personal losses to the membership of
these congregations, and multiplying the calls for Home Mission
aid.
Reports from the Presbyteries concerned show that about
eighty churches and manses were damaged, ranging in extent from
ten per cent to total loss, and that the financial losses to the mem-
bership were in the same proportion.
The receipts from the emergency appeal of the Assembly, Sun-
day, June I2th, for the relief of our suffering brethren amounted to
about $25,000. The funds received from this special offering were
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used to restore so ne of the damaged buildings, but no provision was
made for assisting the di-scouraged and depleted congregations to
support their pastors. The Committee with its present income is
not able to increase appropriations to these Presbyteries, and has no
funds with which to help these struggling churches.
In addition to this unexpected emergency caused by the flood,
two greatly needed school buildings in the mountains stand un-
finished and unprovided for. One is to replace the burned building
at Highland Institute, Guerrant, Kentucky, and the other is the
building for which the Blue Ridge Academy, The Hollow, Virginia,
has waited so long. It is the earnest desire of the Executive Com-
mittee that these two buildings may be completed this year free
from the embarassment of a hmdering debt.
In view of these multiplied and appealing calls and the burden
of indebtedness resting upon our Home Mission work, the Commit-
tee earnestly covets the fullest co-operation and support of all our
pastors and sessions, and of all our churches, societies and Sunday
schools.
The following recommendations are offered :
1. That all pastors be requested to preach upon Home Missions
in November, and that all churches not providing for this cause in
the annual Every Member Canvass be urged to make an offering
during this month for Assembly's Home Missions.
2. That all churches and societies be urged to observe Home
Mission week, November 13-20, with the annual thank offering for
Home Missions.
3. That the Young People's Societies be urged to apply their
Home Mission gifts to the support of the Blue Ridge Academy, The
Hollow, Virginia, which school the General Assembly has assigned
them as their special responsibility.
4. That all churches, societies and Sunday school, in distrib-
uting their benevolent offerngs, be urged to allow Assembly's Home
Missions its rightful percentage.
5. That we pledge anew to the Assembly's Executive Committee
of Home Missions our fullest co-operation and support in all its
work.
Respectfully submitted,
J. F. LIGON, Chairman.
C H. LITTLE.
The report was adopted.
The following report was adopted :
REPORT ON THE BIBLE CAUSE
Your Committee on the Bible Cause begs to report as follows :
The Church should be profoundly grateful to God for the con-
tinued and ever-increasing work done by the American Bible Soci-
ety. It is the accredited agency of all the leading denominations, in-
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eluding our own, for national and world-wide Bible production and
distribution. It maintains ten home agencies and twelve foreign
agencies. Last year it circulated more than nine million volumes of
the Scriptures in i68 languages and dialects in this and in foreign
countries. Its aid in carrying on the work of the various denomina-
tions at home and abroad cannot be over-estimated. The Bible be-
ing the very foundation upon which the Church and its work rests,
this work simply could not be done without this or some similar
agency.
ma
It is encouraging to know that there is a real and growing de-
^xx«.nd for the Bible in all parts of the earth, and this society is do-
ing all it can with its limited means to supply this demand.
This great agency is supported by Z^ denominations. The total
expenditure of the society last year was over a million dollars, but
this was far short of what was needed. The budget for this year is
$1,300,000. The percentage of our benevolences assigned to this
cause by our Church is six-tenths of one percent. Last year, our
Church gave less than in 1925. We trust that our people will in a
measure appreciate the most valuable service this society is render-
ing the Church and the Kingdom and give it the financial support it
deserves. In our judgment no more important work can be done.
The percentage assigned this cause is very small, which makes it
only the more necessary that we give the small amount asked for.
We recommend that all the churches of the Presbytery put this
great cause in their budgets and see that it gets the full amount
apportioned to it. If for any reason, any church does not put it in
its budget, we urge it to see that the cause is taken care of in some
other way.
J. W. STORK, Committee.
Presbytery was led in prayer by Rev. W. B. Mcllwaine,
Jr., for the success of the financial effort of Queens College,
and by Rev. A. A. Walker for the recovery of Rev. A. A.
McGeachy, D.D.
The report of the Nominating Committee was adopted.
(See inside covers.)
Presbyterian Standard Day
Dr. W. H. Frazer was heard on the Presbyterian Stand-
ard. The Presbytery set November 6th as Presbyterian
Standard Day, and urged that a collection be taken in every
church to raise the $4,000 deficit in the publication of this,
the official organ of the Synod, thus following the example
of Synod, October 6, 1927.
Rev. W. B. Lindsay, of the First A. R. P. Presbytery,
Rev. W. E. Furr, of Kings Mountain Presbytery and Rev.
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W. M. Hunter, of Concord Presbytery were introduced and
invited to sit as visiting brethren.
The order of the day having arrived to hear the Presby-
terial sermon, Rev. W. H. Frazer, D.D., preached from
Romans 12:1 and II Corinthians 3:18.
A rising vote of thanks w^as tendered Dr. Frazer for the
able and timely message, w^hich v^as ordered to be printed.
The Committee on Bills and Overtures submitted their
report v^hich was received and considered seriatim, and
amended.
Pending consideration of the report, recess was taken
until 2 p. m.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
Presbytery was led in prayer by Rev. T. H. Mitchell.
The report of the Committee on Bills and Overtures was
resumed and adopted as amended as follows :
REPORT OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON BILLS AND
OVERTURES AS ADOPTED
The Committee on Bills and Overtures would report that three
overtures w^ere placed in their hands and we recommend the follow-
ing answers :
Overture No. i, from Dr. H. Q. Alexander, requesting that Pres-
bytery disapprove the teaching of Military Science and Practice in
Colleges and High Schools.
Answer: That the request be declined.
Overture No. 2, from the Trustees of the "Historical Foundation
of the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches," requesting that the
Clerk of Presbytery be directed to deposit records of Presbytery
previous to 1920 with the Foundation.
Answer: Docketed till spring meeting.
The overture :
Whereas, "The Historical Foundation of the Presbyterian and
Reformed Churches" has been established by our General Assembly
with nine trustees, with office at Montreat in our own state, and in
a fire proof building for safe keeping of all records of the Church;
and
Whereas, it is of the utmost importance that all of our records
be kept under the best of fire protection, not subject to circulation
22 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
and misplacement, and that they be assembled at one point for con-
venience in research work to the whole Church ;
Therefore be it resolved, that the Stated Clerk of Mecklenburg
Presbytery be instructed to deposit all the records of Presbytery
previous to 1920 with the Historical Foundation of the Presbyterian
and Reformed Churches for safe keeping in the fireproof building at
Montreat, N. C, and without altering in any way or any degree the
title of the Presbytery in said records.
Overture No. 3, from Fayetteville Presbytery requesting Meck-
lenburg Presbytery to appoint a committee to investigate the ad-
visability and feasibility of establishing a junior college for boys.
Answer :
1. That a committee of five be appointed to co-operate with the
committee of Fayetteville Presbytery, and like committees from
other Presbyteries that may be appointed, to investigate the whole
question as to cost, location, and plans for securing the necessary
funds.
2. That when the committees have obtained the necessary in-
formation the advisability of calling meetings of the several Pres-
byteries interested be left to the judgment and action of the joint
committees.
Respectfully submitted,
LYNN R. WALKER, Chairman.
W. S. HAMITER.
C. H. LITTLE.
W. L. BROWN.
C. E. CHOATE, Committee.
C. H. Rowan, W. H. Frazer, L. H. Query, Q. N. Huney-
cittt, Dr. H. Q. Alexander, and W. C. Underwood requested
that their votes in opposition to the committee's report be
recorded with reference to military training in schools and
colleges.
The Moderator appointed the following committee to
confer with like committees of Fayetteville Presbytery and
others to confer about a Junior College : A. A. Walker,
S. B. McLean, C H. Rowan, L. R. Walker, Dr. R. H. Laf-
ferty.
The following report was adopted as amended:
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S
MINUTES
Your Committee begs to submit the following report :
The Minutes of the General Assembly have been examined and
are admirably prepared and printed. The Appendix furnishes much
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valuable and interesting material. The attention of Presbytery is
especially called to the action of Assembly in erecting the "Com-
mittee on Assembly Work," or possibly better known as the "Com-
mittee of Forty-Four,"
We respectfully recommend the following:
1. That the pastors of Presbytery give due attention to the
special days appointed by the Assembly and shown on page number
12 of the Minutes of the Assembly.
2. That the consideration of the proposed changes in the Di-
rectory of Worship be docketed till the spring meeting.
3. That consideration of paying the per capita tax for the His-
torical Foundation be docketed till spring. The amount of tax is
$155-84.
C. G. LONG.
J. A. McINTYRE.
B. F. YANDELL.
R. W. CULBERTSON.
The following report was adopted :
REPORT ON LEADERSHIP TRAINING
Your sub-committee on Religious Education having charge of
the leadership training work for the Presbytery respectfully reports
as follows :
Carrying out the recommendation of Presbytery made a year
ago that four ladies from the Assembly's Training School be em-
ployed to do this work in the Presbytery during the summer, we
employed the four ladies to do Daily Vacation Bible School and
Teacher Training Work. Misses Annie Irene Brown, Evelyn Gainey,
Mary Sturgis, and Mary Howard Turlington were our workers. One-
half the salary and half the traveling expenses of two of them was
paid by the Committee of Publication -in Richmond. Twelve Bible
schools were conducted in different places in the Presbytery as fol-
lows : Amity, Cornelius, Ellerbe, Huntersville, Mulberry, McGee,
Philadelphia, Seversville, St. Paul, Sugaw Creek, Williams Memo-
rial, and Rockingham, each school running for twelve days.
The total enrollment for the twelve Bible schools was 798 with
75 local volunteer helpers. These ladies also conducted twelve one-
unit Teacher Training Schools with a total enrollment of 245, to 32
of whom credits were issued by the Richmond Committee.
The total cost of these schools to Presbytery was not more
than seventy cents per pupil, or six cents per day per pupil.
In the opinion of your committee one of the most encouraging
features of this work was the larger number of local helpers who
volunteered their services, and for tv/elve days had the opportunity
of working with and under the supervision of these trained work-
ers. This alone, we feel, was worth the whole cost of the work to
Presbytery. We doubt not that the minds and hearts of several of
these girls were turned towards the Assembly's Training School as
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a result of this work with these splendid, consecrated ladies. Your
committee was delighted with the splendid work they did for us.
Financial Statement
Receipts
Mr. Price $300.00
Mr. Garth 300.00
Refund for Supplies 11.34
Sale of Books 3575
Free-Will Offerings 150.46
Total Receipts $797-55
Disbursements
Salaries $555-00
Books and Supplies _ 101.35
Letter Writing 1.50
Workers' Traveling Expenses 78.95
Postage, Phone Calls 3.71
Total Expenditures $740.51
Balance in Bank $ 57.04
Recommendations
1. We recommend, first, that as many churches of the Presby-
bytery as can put on these Bible Schools and Teacher Training
work, those that are able to do so financing the work themselves.
2. That Presbytery continue this work next summer in the
weaker churches of Presbytery on the same conditions that it was
done this year, namely, that four ladies from the Training School
be employed again ; that $300.00 be appropriated from Presbytery's
Tax Fund and the same amount from the Home Missions Commit-
tee, the rest of the amount needed to come from the Richmond
Committee and from free-will offerings where the work is done. We
are taking for granted that our Richmond Committee will give us
the same aid it did this year,
3. We believe the weakest point in this year's work was the
small number of Teacher Training credits issued compared with
the large number of teachers enrolled. We would, therefore, recom-
mend that pastors and Sunday School superintendents remind their
teachers and prospective teachers where this work is done to take
advantage of the teacher training work and urge them to work for .
credits. We would also call the attention of the pastors and super-
intendents to the Standard Teacher Training School to be con-
ducted in the Second Church, of Charlotte, beginning Sunday after-
noon, October 30th, and that they urge their teachers to attend this
school and secure credits.
4. It is recommended that Rev. S. B. Lyerly be made chairman
of Committee on Religious Education and that Rev. P. W. Wilson be
added to the Committee on Leadership Training.
W. S. HAMITER, Chairman Sub-Committee.
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Revised Arrangements for C. R. Nisbet's Installation
The Session of Caldwell Memorial Church respectfully requests
that the recent action taken appointing a commission to install
Rev. Charles R, Nisbet as pastor and leaving the time for said in-
stallation to be determined by the commission be amended as fol-
lows :
Add Rev. G. C. Huntington to the commission; appoint Rev. W.
H. Frazer to preside, propound the constitutional questions and
charge the people; Rev. A. S. Johnson to charge the pastor, and
that Rev. J. H. Henderlite, D.D., of Kings Mountain Presbytery be
invited to preach the serm.on. That Elders W. E. Price and John
B. Ross be added to the commission.
The time to be October 30, 1927, at 11 a. m.
Sabbath and Family Religion
The report of the Committee on Sabbath and Family
Religion was adopted as follows :
Noting with pleasure the increasing interest of our people in the
work of the Lord's Day Alliance and appreciating most heartily the
recent visit and addresses of Dr. Wyley, president of the Alliance,
and several of his co-workers in the city of Charlotte, and the ex-
cellent address of Dr. H. P. Bowlby before Presbytery: We recom-
mend that our ministers be and are hereby requested to preach a
sermon on the observance of the Sabbath at as early a date as prac-
ticable, and to take the offering for Protestant Relief in Europe
and the work of the Alliance on October 30th, the time designated
by the General Assembly for the purpose.
R. J. McILWAIN, Chairman.
Judicial Business — Sugaw Creek
The following report was submitted :
Your Committee on Judicial Business would respectfully report
as follows :
First : That the two papers, and all questions involved in the
same, and bearing upon conditions in the Sugaw Creek Church be
referred to a commission of Presbytery and that full power and
authority be given- the commission to redress any and all evils
found to exist in said church.
Second: That the following men constitute this commission:
Rev. A. R. Shaw, D.D., Rev. R. S. Burwell, D.D., Rev. C. R. Nisbet,
D.D., Elder Thomas Smith, Elder T. B. Spratt. Rev. C. H. Rowan.
C. H. ROWAN, Chairman.
The Judicial Committee's report was amended to add
Rev. C. H. Rowan and clothe commission with power to
act, and was adopted.
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SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
Your Committee on Schools and Colleges has had before it the
report of the Board of Trustees of Queens College and also the
address of President W. H. Frazer.
We note with pleasure the progress made by this college dur-
ing the past year and its present flourishing conditions.
This progress is manifest in the largest enrollment in the his-
tory of the institution, about 370; the dedication of Sara E. Morri-
con Hall September 9th, providing rooms for 40 students, dining-
room for 450, kitchen, dish-room pantry, cold storage and refrigera-
tion facilities and recreational hall. This hall, the gift of Mrs. Sara
E. Morrison ; the election of a vice-president w^ho shall have charge
of the curriculum, and the inauguration of a movement to meet the
requirements of the Southern Educational Association for accredit-
ing by raising $200,000 additional endow^ment are the outstanding
features of the progress of Queens College.
We note with pleasure the splendid work being done in Bible
Study under the able direction of Rev, C. W. Somerville, D.D., as-
sisted by Rev. Edgar G. Gammon, D.D.
We note total gross income from board, tuition and student fees
for the current year promises about $120,000 as over against $100,000
last year. With anticipated income from the Synod and invested
funds the total of $136,000 will be realized for operating during the
present year.
Resolved: i. That Presbytery express its approval of the elec-
tion of L. Wilson Jarman as vice-president and pledge him our
support in every way possible in his work.
2. That we have heard with pleasure the address of Rev. W.
H. Frazer, president. That Presbytery approve the movement of
the Board of Trustees to raise $200,000 additional endowment and
urge all our churches to co-operate with President Frazer in his
efforts to raise the same.
3. That Presbytery express to Mrs. Sara E. Morrison our ap-
preciation of her munificent gift, represented in Sara E. Morrison
Hall, now in use upon the campus of Queens College, and pledge to
her our purpose to use the same for the Christian education of the
young womanhood of our land.
4. That Presbytery pledge its continued support to Queens
College, joining hands with the trustees in a determination to make
this an A-grade, four-year college for women inferior to none.
Chas. R. NISBET, Chairman.
I. E. WALLACE.
The report was adopted.
PRESBYTERIAL ASSESSMENTS
To the Presbytery of Mecklenburg:
Your Committee on Presbytery's Assessments would report that
the following churches have not paid their assessments for 1926-1927,
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to wit: Allan, Badin, Bethany, Beulah, Brainard, Lee Park, Liles-
ville, Locust, Midland, Morgan Memorial, Norman, Norwood, Oak-
boro, Palestine, Peachland, Rehoboth, Salem, Siler, Stanfield, Star,
Stephenson, Troy, Turner, Unionville, Walkersville.
The following have paid in part, to wit : Biscoe, Candor, Car-
mel, North Charlotte, Pageland.
We also notice that a number of these churches did not pay
their assessments for the year 1925-1926.
We recommend that those ministers in charge of these de-
linquent churches try to get them to make payment of their assess-
ments, particularly for the year 1926-1927.
We recommend an assessment of 22 cents per member for Pres-
byterial purposes for the year 1927-1928.
T. M. STRIBLING, Chairman.
The committee's report was adopted :
Report of Permanent Committee on Orphans' Home was
adopted as follows :
BARIUM SPRINGS ORPHANAGE
Your committee to whom was referred a communication from
the superintendent of Orphans' Home would report :
1. There are now 355 children being cared for by the orphan-
age, and no possibility of taking others until the much-needed relief
in finances is secured.
2. Church organizations and individuals are invited to call upon
the superintendent for literature and other information concerning
the needs of the orphanage.
3. Friends of the orphanage are cordially invited to visit the
institution, get first-hand information, and become publicity agents;
but they are most respectfully urged to make such visits on some
other day than the Sabbath.
4. Your committee would very earnestly request that each pas-
tor present the cause of the orphanage a suitable time before
Thanksgiving and take such measures for impressing the needs of
the institution upon his people as will secure as liberal a response as
possible in this special Thanksgiving offering.
Respectfully submitted.
W. H. JOHNSTON.
R. W. CULBERTSON.
Records of Presbytery
Report of Standing Committee on Records of Pres-
bytery was adopted as follows :
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Your committee, having examined the records of Presbytery,
finds that the proceedings of this court have been carefully recorded
and prepared far circulation.
The records are attractive in appearance and seem to be cor-
rect in details. We commend the efficient work of clerks and
prmters.
Respectfully submitted,
W. H. JOHNSTON.
ROBT. H. LAFFERTY.
Rev. Lynn R. Walker, D.D., was added to the Board of
Trustees of the Albemarle Normal and Industrial Institute.
The Leave of Absence Committee submitted a report
which was adopted.
The Committee on Foreign Missions presented the fol-
lowing report which was adopted :
FOREIGN MISSION REPORT TO PRESBYTERY
Predictions about China are hardly more than guesses, yet there
seems increasing ground for hope that our missionaries can return
to their v^ork there at no distant day. In the meantime our For-
eign Mission Commitee and practically all other Foreign Mission
boards are pursuing substantially the same course. Of our China
missionaries 62, whose furloughs were due or within one year of
being due, are taking their furlough now. Of the 23 on furlough
last year who were unable to return at the appointed time, those
whose health will permit are seeking temporary employment. Of
the other 22 have been returned by their Missions to this country to
secure remunerative employment, if possible, till the way opens for
their return to China. The remaining 90 are waiting in Japan, Korea,
and port cities of China till conditions in China permit them to go
back to their stations. In the meantime they are pursuing their
studies and doing fruitful missionary work in the places where they
are waiting.
The extra expense of this evacuation of all our -200 China mis-
sionaries from their stations, and their sojourn elsewhere under far
more expensive living conditions, will amount to. at least $125,000.
Of this amount only some $25,000 was received from the special
collection of June 12th ordered by the Assembly, This enormous
extra expense the Committee is paying from month to month, bor-
rowing the money for the purpose.
Of course this evacuation expense is outside of and additional
to the debt, which stood at $290,000 on last April ist. It is also out-
side of and additional to the regular running expenses of the work.
The last General Assembly ordered that these regular running
expenses be brought within the actual receipts of the previous year.
To carry out this order both the Foreign Mission Committee and
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the Committee of Forty-Four took the following momentous action.
They ordered that the money assigned to our missionaries, not for
their own support, but for the support of the various forms of mis-
sion work that they are actually doing on the field, be reduced by
$100,000, this terrific cut to go into effect on April i, 1928.
So vividly did the Committee of Forty-Four realize the tragic
consequences of this action that they instructed their chairman to
issue in their name a solemn and urgent call to the Church at large
to so increase its Foreign Mission gifts between now and next
April 1st as to obviate the necessity of this disastrous cut. This is
no cry of wolf when there is no wolf. The Committee of Forty-
Four authoritatively informs the Church that, the financial condition
of the Foreign Mission work being what it is, the only thing that
can remove the necessity of this cut is an immense increase in this
year's Foreign Mission contributions.
We therefore, recommend that the Presbytery call upon its
Churches and individual members to greatly increase, and, if pos-
sible, double their Foreign Mission gifts this year.
We recommend this because this impending cut will mean the
dismissal of hundreds of native workers on whose education and
training thousands of dollars and years of labor have been spent.
We recommend it because this cut will mean the closing^ of
scores of mission schools and the shutting out of thousands of young
people from all prospect of Christian education and careers of Chris-
tian usefulness.
We recommend it because this cut will mean the closing of
scores of outstations which are now centers of Christian light and
activity and the sinking back into heathenism of large sections of
our territory on which years of toil and prayer have been expended.
We recommend it because this will be the greatest blow that has
ever fallen upon our Church's Foreign Mission work in all its his-
tory, carrying disaster into every mission field and bitter grief into
every missionary home.
We recommend it because our Church has never yet averaged as
much as one cent a day per member for Foreign Missions and is
well able, without excessive sacrifice, to double its present rate of
Foreign Mission giving.
We recommend it because this work is Christ's work, committed
to us by our Lord Himself, and so abundantly blessed by Him as to
give us every encouragement to support and expand it.
Finally, we recommend it because, if we as a Church prefer to
hold on to our money rather than save our Lord's work from an
unprecedented disaster, we shall prove ourselves guilty of gross
disloyalty, nay, of putting to an open shame Him who loved us and
gave Himself for us, and whose last command to us was to go into
all the world, disciple all nations, preach the gospel to every crea-
ture.
W. B. McILWAINE, JR., Chairman.
The chairman was directed to present the report from
the Foreign Missions Committee to the women's meetings
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at Wilmoore Church Thursday and at Mallard Creek Church
Friday.
The Stated Clerk, Permanent Clerk, and Trustees of
Presbytery were re-elected by rising vote. They are as
follows, J. G. Garth, Statd Clerk, J. W. Stork, Permanent
Clerk, Trustees, W. H. Belk, H. C. Alexander, and J. L.
Choate.
Mt. Gilead was selected for the spring meeting, to be
held April 10, 1928, at 8 p. m.
An adjourned meeting was appointed for the first Mon-
day, December 5th, at 2 p. m., at the First Church, Char-
lotte.
Resolutions of thanks were adopted by rising vote.
RESOLUTION OF THANKS
After a delightful meeting of Presbytery, in St. Paul's Church,
the- members of the Presbytery would express to the members of
that church their most hearty appreciation. We have been given
comfortable accommodations for the week; some of us have had
most hospitable entertainment in the homes of the people ; the
ladies have done second to none in feeding our hungry multitudes ;
and in every way the people of St. Paul's Church have shown their
welcome and made the Presbytery comfortable and happy. We
thank them. And we pray the blessing of God on our brother
Lyerly and on his people.
The Presbytery requests that this expression of its appreciation
be read from the pulpit of the church next Sunday morning.
WM. B. McILWAINE, JR., Chairman.
The minutes of today's session were read and adopted.
The calling of the roll was dispensed with.
Presbytery adjourned with singing Blest Be the Tie That
Binds, and benediction by the Moderator.
J. M. WALKER, Moderator
J. W. STORK, Permanent Clerk.
J. F. LIGON, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
ADJOURNED MEETING
June 6, 1927.
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in adjourned session in the
senior room of the First Church, Charlotte, at 2 p m., June
6th. No Moderator being present, the Stated Clerk opened
the meeting with prayer. Rev. W. B. Mcllwaine, arriving
just afterwards, and being the last Moderator present, took
the chair and and presided over the meting.
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Ministers: W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., J. G. Garth, S. A.
Ewart, A. A. McGeachy, C. W. Somerville, J. W. Grier, R.
W. Culbertson, B. F. Yandell, P. W. Wilson, J. R. Bridges,
A. S. Johnston, R. S. Burwell, S. B. Lyerly, W. S. Hamiter,
W. T. Smith, L. W. Brown, G. C Huntington, W. B. S.
Chandler, C. H. Little, J. M. Walker, A. A. Walker, C. C
Beam, W. H. Johnston, M. E. Peabody', T. F. Huneycutt,
C. E. White, J. F. Ligon, A. R. Shaw, S. B. McLean.
Elders : F. S. Neal, Sugaw Creek ; C F. BroAvn, Steele
Creek ; Capt. W. M. Anderson, Second Church ; Dr. H. Q.
Alexander, Providence ; W. L. Wallis, Tenth Avenue ; J. D.
Woodside, Caldwell Memorial ; J. T. Wardlaw, Myers Park;
W. F. Baker, Sharon ; C. S. Harkey, Philadelphia ; G. W.
Stewart, Hopewell ; W. L. Summerville, Thomasboro ; J.
Wilson Miller, Amity; O. W. Potts, Banks; W. C. Barnett,
Pineville ; J. P. Sample, Carmel.
Mr. W. H. Matheson, a licentiate of Concord Presbytery,
presented a certificate of dismissal from his Presbytery, and
after due examination in regular form, his degrees of A. B.
from Davidson College, and B. D. from Union Seminary
being accepted in lieu of examinations in philosophy and the
ancient languages, it was ordered that a commission ordain
and install him at Thomasboro Church, June 19th, at 7 :30 p.
m. The call had already been found in order, and Mr.
Matheson expressed his wish to accept the call. Mr. Mathe-
son also preached a sermon from Hebrew 2:10, which was
accepted as part of trial.
Licientiate T. F. Grier, of this Presbytery, presented
himself for ordination, and after examination, it was or-
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dered that the sermon be waived, since he had been serving
two churches in this Presbytery, and had preached an ac-
ceptable sermon before Presbytery at Sugaw Creek, April,
1926. On motion, the Moderator ordained Mr. Grier as
evangelist, as an extraordinary case, his degree from Er-
skin College being accepted for the usual college branches.
Dr. C. W. Somerville delivered the charge.
Mr. Grier was assigned as supply to Waxhaw and Six
Mile Creek churches till spring meeting of Presbytery.
Rev. A. L. McDufifie presented a certificate of dismission
from the Presbytery of Dubuque, Synod of Iowa, U. S. A.,
and after examination in personal religion, theology, and
the sacraments, and signing the obligation was received in-
to the Presbytery. Calls for his services from Candor
($700), Biscoe ($300), and Macedonia ($300), were placed
in his hands, having been found in order, and accepted by
him. The following were appointed to install Mr. McDuf-
fie : Revs. A. A. Walker, G. C. Huntington, and J. M. Walk-
er, and the elders of Caldwell Memorial Church, the time to
be selected by the commission.
Revs. Lock White, Montgomery Presbytery ; J. L. Cald-
well, Muhlenburg Presbytery, and J. M. W. Elder, Roanoke
Presbytery, sat as visiting brethren.
*
The following report of the committee to consider the
dissolution of Carmel Church was adopted:
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON DISSOLUTION OF CARMEL
CHURCH
The committee met April 25th at Presbyterian Standard office.
In view of the minutes of Carmel Church and recorded on page 133,
of the minutes of cession, the committee recommends:
1. The Carmel Church be dissolved from this date.
2. The trustees of Carmel Church shall be authorized and in-
structed to dispose of the church property in harmony with the
law and the will of the congregation as expressed in the minutes
aforesaid, page 133.
3. The former clerk of session of Carmel Church shall issue cer-
tificates of membership to each and all members of the Church, to
whatever Church they shall each choose.
4. The trustees and the clerk shall report to the Presbytery by
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the fall meeting the performance of their several duties herein
prescribed.
H. E. GURNEY.
J. G. GARTH.
W. H. JOHNSTON.
J. P. SAMPLE.
The records of session of the Carmel Church were or-
dered placed in the hands of the Stated Clerk for filing.
Caldwell Memorial asked permission to prosecute a call
for the pastoral services of Rev. C. R. Nisbet, D.D., of
Kansas City, Mo., Upper Missouri Presbytery. The call
being found in order, the permission was granted.
Hopewell Church was granted permission to engage
Rev. C. W. Somerville, D.D., as stated supply until fall meet-
ing of Presbytery.
Mr. Byron Long was dismissed as a candidate for the
ministry to the Presbytery of Cherokee, that he might ac-
cept a call to Cedarholm, Ga.
Mr. James T. Riddervold was granted a letter of dismis-
sion as a candidate for the ministry to the Presbytery of
El Paso that he might accept a call to the church at Bal-
morea, Texas.
A communication from the Stated Clerk of the Assem-
bly with reference to dues for the Assembly's Historical
Society was placed on the docket for the fall meeting.
A communication from the administrator of the estate
of Rev. W. R. Coppedge, D.D., deceased, asserting that this
estate had bequeathed five lots in the city of Rockingham,
N. C, to the Presbytery if Mecklenburg, was referred to
the trustees of the Presbytery. The communication is as
follows.
Rev. J. G. Garth, Stated Clerk,
Mecklenburg Presbytery,
Charlotte, N. C.
Dear Sir:
Item 16 in the will of Dr. W. R. Coppedge makes this
bequest to the Mecklenburg Presbytery, viz. :
"I bequeath to the Presbytery of Mecklenburg my other five
lots on Green Street to be disposed of at such time as the Presby-
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tery may direc^ and the proceeds distributed according to the Pro-
gressive Program among the objects of benevolence."
The lots mentioned are located in Rockingham, N. C,
and are of some value, how much I can not say.
I am writing you in order that you may know of this
provision in Dr. Coppedge's will. If there is anything that
I can do in assisting you in disposing of the property, I shall
be pleased to have you call upon me.
'Yours very truly,
B. F. REYNOLDS,
Admr. c. t. a. W. R. Coppedge Estate.
A resolution, touching military science and practice in
high schools and colleges, was presented by Dr. H. Q. Alex-
ander, and at his request -placed on the docket for the fall
meeting.
The report of the commissions to install Rev, T. F.
Huneycutt at Locust and Morgan Memorial churches was
received and is as follows :
REPORT OF COMMISSION TO INSTALL
REV. T. F. HUNEYCUTT
The commission appointed to install Rev. T. F. Huneycutt pas-
tor at Locust, met in the Locust Church at ii a. m., Sunday, May
15, 1927. Present: Rev. A. A. Walker and Rev. W. C. Underwood,
A. A. Walker presided, preached the sermon, asked the constitu-
tional questions, and charged the congregation; Rev. W. C. Under-
v^ood charged the pastor and Mr. Huneycutt w^as duly installed.
A. A. WALKER, for the Commission.
On the same day, at 3 p. m.. Rev. T. F. Huneycutt v^as installed
pastor at Morgan Memorial. Rev. W. C. Underwood preached the
sermon; Rev. A. A. Walker presided, asked the constitutional ques-
tions, and charged the pastor and congregation.
A. A. WALKER, for the Commission.
The following commission was appointed to ordain and
install Licentiate W. H. Matheson at Thomasboro : Min-
isters, J. G. Garth, A. A. Walker, W. H. Frazer, and elders
W. E. Price and W. L. Summerville.
Upon the reading of a paper from certain persons from
Sharon Church, the following resolution was adopted :
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That a commission of nine be appointed to take up the
matter of Sharon Church with power, after investigation,
to take such action in the premises as they think will settle
this matter, and be for the best interest, peace and harmony
of the church.
The following were appointed on the commission : Revs.
W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., L. W. Brown, W. B. S. Chandler, S. B.
McLean, and P. W. Wilson, and ruling elders R. A. Dunn,
G. M. Beaty, P. S. Gilchrist, and J. H. Wearn. Later, Wil-
liam Anderson was substituted for J. H. Wearn, who plead-
ed sickness. The change was made by order of the Modera-
tor.
Presbytery adjourned to meet in First Church, Char-
lotte, N. C, July 18th, at 2 p. m.
W. B. McILWAINE, Moderator.
S. A. EWART, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
ADJOURNED MEETING
July 18, 1927.
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in adjourned session in
First Church, Charlotte at 2 p. m.
Presbytery was called to order by Rev. W. B. Mcll-
waine, last Moderator present.
Opened with prayer by Rev. R. W. Culbertson.
The following, were present:
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Ministers : J. R. Bridges, C. C. Beam, I. E. Wallace, P.
W. Wilson, C. H. Rowan, W. H. Matheson, J. W. Grier, R.
S. Burwell, R. W. Culbertson, B. F. Yandell, M. E. Peabody,
C. W. Somerville, H. E. Gurney, L. W. Brown, W. B. Mc-
Ilwaine, A. A. Walker, W. T. Smith, C. H. Little, J. G.
Garth, S. B. Lyerly, W. H. Johnston, C. G. Long, J. F.
Ligon, W. C. Underwood, T. F. Grier, and W. P. Chedester.
Elders : H. Q. Alexander, Providence ; W. M. Bradford,
Ramah, C. F. Brown, Steele Creek; G. M. Beaty, Severs-
ville ; C. S. Harkey, Philadelphia ; F. S. Neal, Sugaw Creek ;
G. E. Wilson, Myers Park; J. W. Miller, Amity; T. W.
Stewart, Hopewell ; R. L. Smith, West Avenue ; J. E.
Thomas, Thomasboro ; McAlister Carson, First Church.
Rev. D. B. Gregory, of Brazos Presbytery; Rev. J. L,
Caldwell, D.D., of Muhlenberg Presbytery; Rev. E. G. Gam-
mon, D.D., of Tuscaloosa Presbytery, and Rev. M. P. Cain,
of New Orleans Presbytery were invited to sit as visiting
brethren.
Rev. E. G. Gammon presented a sertificate of dismissal
from Tuscaloosa Presbytery. After his examination was
sustained as satisfactory and he had signed the covenant he
was enrolled as member of this Presbytery.
M. R. Moss, of First Church, Charlotte ; F. J. Knox, of
Bethel Church, and Harold Rummage, of Albemarle Church,
Presented credentials from their respective sessions, and
having been examined, they answered the questions for can-
didates and a charge was delivered by Dr. C. W. Somerville,
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and thus were received under the care of Presbytery as can-
didates for the ministry.
A call from the Myers Park Church for the pastoral
services of Rev. E. G. Gammon, at a salary of $5,000 and a
manse, w^as found in order. The call w^as placed in Dr.
Gammon's hands. He signified his acceptance.
The follov^ing commission w^as appointed to install Rev.
E. G. Gammon as pastor of Myers Park Church on Sep-
tember 18, 1927: Revs. C. C. Beam, W. H. Frazer, A. A.
Walker, and elders R. A. Dunn, and J. T. Wardlav^. Per-
mission w^as granted the church to invite Rev. B. R. Lacy,
Jr., of Richmond, Va., to preside, preach and propound the
questions. Mr. Beam to charge the pastor, and Dr. Frazer
to charge the people.
Rev. W. W. Moore was granted permission to labor out-
side the bounds of Presbytery until the next stated meet-
ing.
Rev. H. H. Cassady was granted a certificate of dismissal
to Kings Mountain Presbytery.
Commission to ordain and install W. H. Matheson as
pastor of Thomasboro Church reported as follows :
ORDINATION OF W. H. MATHESON
The commission to ordain and install W. H. Matheson pastor of
Thomasboro Church met at that Church Sunday evening at 7:30
o'clock, June 19, 1927. Members of the commission present were :
Rev. J. G. Garth, Rev. A. A. Walker, Dr. W. H. Frazer, Elder W. L.
Summerville, and Elder W. E. Price. The commission was consti-
tuted with prayer. Rev. J. G. Garth presided and Elder W. E.
Price acted as clerk. Rev. A. A. Walker preached the seromn from
the text, Phil. 2:12. Rev. J. G. Garth propounded the questions to
the pastor and people, and with laying on of hands and prayer,
W. H. Matheson was regularly ordained and installed pastor. Dr.
W. H. Frazer charged the pastor and Elder W. E. Price charged
the people. After prayer by Dr. Frazer and benediction by the pas-
tor the commission adjourned.
J. G. GARTH, Moderator.
W. E. PRICE, Clerk.
Commission to install Rev. A. L. McDuffie as pastor of
the churches in the Candor group reported as follows :
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INSTALLATION OF REV. A. L. McDUFFIE
The commission to install Rev. A. L. McDuffie as pastor of
Candor, Macedonia, and Biscoe churches met at Candor Church
Sunday, June 26th at 11 a. m. Present: Rev. A. A. Walker, Rev. J.
M. Walker, Rev. G. C. Huntington, Elders M. W. Woodside, E. G.
Cochrane, F. H. Bierman, and W. E, Price. Commission was con-
stituted w^ith prayer. Rev. A. A. Walker presided and W. E. Price
acted as secretary.
Rev. J. M. Walker preached the sermon at Candor and Biscoe
from the- text, Luke 22:27, and charged the pastor at Macedonia.
Rev. A. A. Walker propounded the questions to the pastor and
people at each of the three churches.
Rev. G. C. Huntington preached at Macedonia from text, Rom.
5 :i7, and charged the pastor at Candor. Rev. A. A. Walker charged
at pastor at Biscoe.
Elder W. E. Price charged the congregation at Candor. Elder
W. M. Woodside charged the congregation at Macedonia and Elder
F. H. Bierman charged the congregation at Biscoe. The pastor was
duly installed at each of the churches. Bejiediction pronounced by
the pastor. Commission adjourned.
REV. A. A. WALKER, Moderator.
W. E. PRICE, Clerk. .
OVERTURE TO SYNOD FROM MECKLENBURG
PRESBYTERY
Presbyterian Standard
Presbytery's committee on the subdizing of the Presby-
terian Standard reported.
The report was received and recommendations adopted
as follows :
That whereas the Presbyterian Standard, the Synod's official
organ, is run at a deficit of about $4,000 a year, and whereas other
Church papers, sustain similar losses, and are supported by their
Church organizations, we recommend that the following overture be
adopted and sent to Synod:
We overture the Synod of North Carolina, meeting in Concord,
October 4, 1927, to grant a subsidy of $4,000 to the Presbyterian
Standard for the year 1927. Done in Presbytery, meeting in the
First Presbyterian Church,
J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
Commission appointed to act on the Sharon Church mat-
ter reported as follows :
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FINDINGS OF SHARON COMMISSION
Report of the findings, recommendations and orders of the
commission appointed by Mecklenburg Presbytery "to take up the
matter of Sharon Church with power, after investigation, to take
such action in the premises as they think will settle this matter, and
be for the best interest, peace and harmony of the Church."
The Commission of Mecklenburg Presbytery acting under the
authorization of the above quoted authority, would herein record its
findings, recommendations and orders.
The Commission has held five sessions. We have studied the
records in the case; we have held public and private hearings, due
notice being given ; we believe we are thoroughly acquainted with
the situation. The Session of the Church with its 200 adherents is
opposed by the former Board of Deacons with its approximately
40 or 50 followers. Beginning in small issues, magnified by suspicion
and jealousy, and possibly ambition, under unwise leadership good
men have been led into wrong positions, ties of blood have been
ignored, ties of friendship have been sundered, ties of Christian
love have been cast behind. No wonder then that Sharon Church
has suffered, tliat ootn hiues to tne controversy have lived in bitter-
ness, that both sides have shown discourtesy and disrespect to the
Presbytery, and that occasion has been given to the enemies of Christ
to blaspheme. We say these things not with any desire to be cen-
sorious, nor with any pleasure in wounding the feelings of any one,
but because we feel that in this unfortunate situation the fault is
not on just one side, but that both Session and former Deacons are
to be blamed. We cannot but feel that had there been more of
Christ and less of self there would have been no quarrel in Sharon
Church.
No fairer nor abler presentation of the points at issue can be
given than was made in the report of Rev. G. F. Bell, D.D., and Mr.
F. S. Neal,- received and adopted by the Presbytery in session on
September 20th. In that action the Presbytery settled, and settled
aright several of the points still complained of by the former Boafd
of Deacons. But there are other matters to which we should speak
specifically. It is charged that Clerk of Session, Elder J. V. Brown,
mutilated his minute book by cutting out one sheet, rather than let
it be seen by several of the Deacons going to him with a request
that they be allowed to see that record. Having the statements of
both parties and studying the minute book, we can see no evidence
of any wrong on the part of Mr. Brown ; but we unhesitatingly say
it was wrong for one of the visiting Deacons to take possession of
that sheet in the absence of Mr. Brown.
Under date of February 26, 1926, the following minute appears
in the records of the Session: "A few of .the ladies of the Church
met with the Session stating that they had purchased the com-
munity house and that they wanted to make the deed over to the
elders for the Church ; to be used for the social and spiritual inter-
est of the community; and for the ladies to have control of same.
The last request was readily granted." Now the old Board of
Deacons objects to this action of the Session, quoting the Book of
Church Order, par. 45, which says of the Deacons, "They shall
40 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
have the care of the property of the congregation, both real and
personal." We should notice that the sentence continues "... and
shall keep in proper repair the Church Edifice and other buildings
belonging to the congregation." Here we see that the diaconate
control is over the physical equipment. As it appears to us, the
ladies asked for and were granted control over the community
house's social and recreational and educative program. This is
strictly within the province of the Session, and its delegation to a
committee of the ladies of the congregation in no wise trespassed on
the authority of the diaconate. But supposing, — and it may be true,
that the ladies included in their request a call for the care of the
building. It was a gift from the ladies ; its program was under their
supervision ; what more natural than that the ladies themselves
should wish to watch over its upkeep and its equipment? This is
the; auxiliary work of our ladies, in which the Church has always
taken delight. Of course that does not give the comniittee of ladies
authority to build or to tear down, or put their hands into the treas-
uray of the church for one penny. This is the sacred trust of the
Board of Deacons. And we do not believe the Session intended to
confer any such authority. It is just another case to show the lack
of comity between the Session and the Diaconate.
On January 20th, Presbytery met in a very remarkable Session
at Sharon Church. The climax of that meeting was recorded in the
minutes of Presbytery in the following language. "The Session of
Sharon Church was requested to call a congregational meeting in
the near future to elect deacons ; and'was also requested to re-elect
the eight former deacons who had resigned." At an adjourned
meeting of Presbytery on March 7th this minute was corrected to
call a meeting of the congregation as early as possible for the pur-
pose of electing the original eight (8) deacons and no others, if" the
way be clear, and that they be reinstated," Certainly there is a
difference here. A minute from the Sessional Records of Sharon
Church, dated January 22, reads, "Moved and carried that session
call a congregational meeting for the purpose of electing deacons
February 6, 1927. That Presbytery's request be granted to elect
T. J. Samond, J. A. Black, J. M. Caldwell, W. C. Rankin, A. Q.
Alexander, Clarence Elliott, W. D. Standford, W. R. Lee. This
congregational meeting was held on February 6, and only three of
the original Deacons were re-elected. It is a pertinent fact that on
the Sunday morning after the meeting of Presbytery at Sharon
thfee of the old Deacons were present in the church service, three
were on the grounds and did not go into the church, and two did
not come at all. The three who attended that morning service were
re-elected; the others were not elected. We do not question the
right of a congregation to el^ct whomsoever it pleases as its offi-
cers ; but in this particular situation we feel that Session and con-
gregation "failed to carry out a gentleman's agreement." We feel
too, that in refusing to come into the church when they found that
the pastor was conducting the service, at least three of the former
Deacons showed anything but proper qualifications for office in
Sharon Church. More than that, we feel that the Presbytery had
taken action under tremendous emotional pressure, and that the
congregation was equally excited. Even the minutes of the meeting
had to be corrected by Presbytery later. The whole situation was
over-forced. It was foredoomed to failure.
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Neither Session nor former Deacons has brought formal charge
against anyone. Ugly things have been said, but these were in no
small part because ugly feelings have been indulged. We do not
recommend to the Presbytery prosecution of any charges against
anyone.
On July 7th the Commission spent the day at Sharon. Both
parties were present; and both parties gave the Commission the
finest courtesy. As to the condition of the church, we find that it
is prospering despite the unfortunate disaffection of so many of its
members. We cannot but feel that somebody is praying. The re-
ports on attendance, collections and general spirit, are uniformly
enthusiastic. We believe that God is blessing the church and that
a majority of the members are striving for the glory of God.
We recommend to the former Board of Deacons and their sym-
pathizers in this controversy, that they accept the report of Rev.
G. F. Bell and F. S. Neal, adopted by Presbytery, and the report of
this present Commission, as settling forever, whether according to
their ideas or otherwise, the dispute between Session and Diaconate,
and that they reassume fellowship in the church of their fathers,
relying on time and God's grace to heal all wounds. However, if
there be anyone who feels that he should not return to active mem-
bership in this his own church, we counsel him to promptly apply
to the Session of the church for his letter of transfer to that church
in which he can take active part; and we order the Session of
Sharon Church to give to any such one applying for such transfer,
a letter such as is given to other members in regular standing.
This commission has already set forth that it does not place the
blame for the situation that developed in Sharon Church, on any
one person, or on either side of the controversy. But it is inevitable
in such circumstances, especially when he is active on one side, that
the pastor should lose his influence over some of the opposing fac-
tion. We feel that in this present case there are quite a number of
the members of Sharon Church to whom the present pastor can no
longer minister as spiritual adviser and guide. Therefore in a spirit
of fairness to the minority as well as to the majority, we recommend
to him that when he shall have opportunity to transfer his labors to
some other field, he accept the call. We believe this would be the
fair course and the wise course.
In the name of Christ, let all this controversy cease.
BY THIS SHALL ALL MEN KNOW THAT YE ARE MY
DISCIPLES, IF YE HAVE LOVE ONE TO ANOTHER.— John
13 :35.
We direct that copies of this report be placed in the hands of
the Session of Sharon Church and of Mr. A. Q. Alexander, repre-
senting the former Board of Deacons. And we order the Session of
Sharon Church to have this report read before the congregation on
Sunday morning, July 17, 1927, and without comment.
Signed for the Commission,
WM. B. McILWAINE, Chairman.
July 15, 1927.
42 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
MINUTES OF MEETING OF THE JUDICIAL COMMISSION
OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY IN CONSIDERATION
OF THE SHARON MATTER
P". ' ' '^
The Commission of Mecklenburg Presbytery met having been
duly called by the Moderator, Rev. W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., at the
office of Mr. R. A. Dunn, Charlotte, N. C, June 13, 1927, at 3 P- m.
Present: Ministers: Rev. W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., Rev. S. B. Mc-
Lean, Rev. P. W. Wilson; Elders: Mr. R. A. Dunn, Mr. Guy M.
Beaty.
The meeting was called to order by the Moderator and consti-
tuted with prayer, led by Mr. Beaty.
It was moved, seconded and carried, that a quorum of the com-
mission should be three ministers and two ruling elders.
A quorum being present the Commission proceeded to its bus-
iness.
Rev. P. W. Wilson was elected Clerk of the Commission.
In order to acquaint the members of the Commission with the
details of the case before us the Commission proceeded to a review
of all the papers and communications in the hands of the Presbytery.
These were carefully read and discussed.
After a review of the information on hand in the way of papers,
communications, etc., the question of possible modes of procedure
was introduced and discussed. After some discussion motion was
made to adiourn to meet Tuesday, June 21st at 3:30 p. m., at the
office of Mr. -R. A. Dunn. Carried. Commission adjourned with
prayer.
Signed: REV. P. W. WILSON. Clerk.
Approved : June 21, 1927.
Minutes of meeting June 21, 1927:
The Commission met in adjourned session at the office of Mr.
R. A. Dunn, Charlotte, June 21st, at 3 :40 p. m.
Commission called to order, constituted with prayer.
Present— Ministers : Rev. W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., Moderator,
Rev. S. B. McLean. Rev. W. B. S. Chandler, Rev. L. W. Brown, Rev.
P. W. Wilson, Clerk; Elders : Mr. P. S. Gilchrist, Mr. Guy M. Beaty.
A quorum being present the Commission proceeded to business.
Minutes of the meeting of June 13th were read and approved.
Paper dated June 13th, signed by alledged committee from
Sharon congregation re-read upon request.
Excerpts from minutes of meeting of Mecklenburg Presbytery
held at Sharon Church, January 20, 1927, read for information upon
request.
Motion made by W. B. S. Chandler seconded and after discus-
sion carried by unanimous vote to adopt the following resolution :
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 43
The resolution as adopted follows:
At a meeting of the Commission of Mecklenburg Presbytery
held on June 21, 1927, at the office of Mr. R. A. Dunn, Charlotte, N.
C, after due notice, a quorum being present, Rev. W. B. Mcllwaine,
Jr., presiding, the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved: That this Commission meet at Sharon Presbyterian
Church at 10 a. m. Thursday, July 7, 1927, for the purpose of con-
ducting a hearing, under the authority conferred upon the Com-
mission by Mecklenburg Presbytery in session at the First Presby-
terian Church, Charlotte, N. C, Monday, June 6, 1927, when and
where, the "Former Board of Deacons" and their adherents, here-
inafter designated Complainants; and the Session of Sharon Church
and their adherents, hereinafter designated Respondents; will ap-
pear before the Commission and present evidence in substantiation
of any charges, denials, or countercharges, which they may desire
to present, which charges, denials, or countercharges shall be sub-
mitted in writing as follows :
The Complainants will file with the Chairman of the Commis-
sion on or before Monday, June 27, 1927, at 6 p. m., the original of
such complaint, signed in ink by each and every one of such Com-
plainants and if any be minors their age shall be indicated after
their signature; and in addition to the original of such complaint,
eleven copies of the same shall likewise be filed with said Chairman
(which, however, need not be signed, but the names of the signers
of the original may be typewritten), one of which copies will be
forthwith delivered by said Chairman to the Clerk of the Session
as representative of the said Respondents.
The Respondents, in turn, will file with the said Chairman on
or before Tuesday, July 5, 1927, at 12 m., their answer or reply to
any complaint that may be presented. The original of which shall
be signed by all of the said Respondents in ink, and if any be minors,
their ages shall be indicated after the signature, and in addition
thereto, eleven copies shall like wise be filed with the said Chair-
man (on which copies the names of the signers of the original may
be typewritten), one of which copies will be forthwith delivered by
the said Chairman to the Complainants, who may thereafter file a
reply with the said Chairman on or before the hearing, signed as
the original complaint with a like number of copies.
Be it further resolved : That the above resolution be read from
the pulpit of Sharon Church by the Pastor or other member of the
Session of the said Church on Sunday, June 26th and also Sunday,
July 3, 1927; and that a copy be presented to 'Mr. A. Q. Alexander,
one of the complainants, who will communicate its content to other
complainants.
All minutes and records kept by the Session or Former Board of
Deacons will be produced for the inspection of the Commission.
And of the foregoing the Parties named Complainants and Re-
spondents shall take due notice.
Signed for the Commission,
WM. B. McILWAINE, JR., Chairman.
P. W. WILSON, Clerk.
44 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
The Commission adjourned with prayer to meet at Sharon Pres-
byterian Church, July 7th, at 10 a. m.
Signed : REV. P. W. WILSON, Clerk.
Approved : July 7, 1927.
Minutes of meeting, July 7, 1927:
The Commission met in adjourned session in the Sharon Presby-
terian Church at 10 a. m., on the morning of July 7, 1927.
There being a quorum present the meeting was called to order
by the Moderator and the Commission was constituted with prayer,
led by Mr. Beaty.
The following members were present — Ministers: Rev. W. B.
Mcllwaine, Jr., Moderator, Rev. P. W. Wilson, Clerk, Rev. W. B. S.
Chandler, Rev. L. W. Brown; Elders : Mr. R. A. Dunn, Mr. Guy M.
Beaty.
Commission proceeded to reading of minutes of last meeting,
which were approved as read. Communications were then read from
which it was learned that parties named Cornplainants did not wish
to present formal charges and asked permission only to review some
matters included in former communications, as will be seen from
the attached communications. Commission then discussed possible
methods of procedure and the following resolution which was offer-
ed by W. B. S. Chandler was adopted:
"That the entire congregation to be requested to appear before
the Commission and that a period not to exceed thirty minutes be
given to both the complainants and respondents in which to make
public statement of any matters they wished to be heard by the
Commission, and that they should then furnish to the Clerk of the
Commission the names of any persons from the congregation, whom
they might wish to speak for them privately before the commission
in executive session. After which the congregation should be dis-
missed ^to hold themselves on call individually by the commission."
The congregation having been assembled, this resolution was
read for their information and guidance. The authority under
which the commission was sitting was made clear to the congrega-
tion in a statement made to them by the Moderator. The meeting
was led in prayer by Mr. Chandler and the Commission proceeded to
act in accordance with the resolution.
Attached will be found practically complete stenographic report
of the hearing which followed. As is shown in that report the fol-
lowing persons were called to appear before the commission and
were questioned :
From Complainants: H. C. Reed, J. A. Black, J. W. Porter, T.
J. Samonds, W. R. Lee, W. D. Stanford, C. W. Rankin, A. Q. Alex-
ander.
From Respondents : W. W. Faires, Thorn. Black, J. H. Bol'ok,
J. B. Brown, W. F. Baker, R. C. Brown, Rev. C. H. Little, J. E.
Bolick, J. W. Kirkpatrick, Mrs. J. W. Kirkpatrick, E. F. Smth, Mrs.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 45
Chalmers Kirkpatrick, Mrs. W. F. Baker, Mr. DeArmon, Charles
Rea, Mrs. C. H. Little, Miss Maude Rea, Mrs. E. F. Dardine.
After these were heard and no others were desirous of making
any statement, the Commission adjourned with prayer to meet in
the directors room of the Commercial National Bank, Charlotte, on
Monday, July nth, at 3 p. m.
Signed: REV. P. W. WILSON, Clerk.
Approved: July 11, 1927.
The Commission met in adjourned sesson in the board room of
the Commercial National Bank, Monday, July 11, 1927, at 3 p. m.
Present: Rev. W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., Moderator, Rev. P. W.
Wilson Clerk, Rev. L. W. Brown, Rev. W. B. S. Chandler; Elders:
Mr. R. A. Dunn, Mr. G. M. Beaty.
A quorum being present the Commission was called to order by
the Moderator and constituted with prayer led by Mr. Brown. Min-
utes of previous meeting read and approved.
Possible finds and recommendations of the commission were
discussed, dismissed, others proposed and discussed. Moved by Mr.
Chandler and seconded by Mr. Beaty that the Moderator draft a
tentative statement of the results of the discussion and present it
for consideration of the Commission at the next meeting of the
Commission to be held Friday, July 15th, at 3 p. m., in the same
place of meeting. This motion was, after considerable discussion
and many suggestions, carried by unanimous vote.
The commission adjourned, to meet as above, with prayer.
REV. P. W. WILSON, Clerk.
Approved : July 15, 1927.
Minutes of meeting, July 15, 1927.
The Commission met in the board room of the Commercial Na-
tional Bank, Friday, July 15, at 3 p. m., in adjourned session.
The following members were present: Rev. W. B. Mcllwaine,
Jr., Moderator, Rev. P. W. Wilson, Clerk, Rev. L. W. Brown, Rev.
W. B. S. Chandler; Elders: Mr. R. A. Dunn, Mr. Guy M. Beaty.
A quorum being found to be present the meeting was called to
order and the Commission constituted with prayer, led by Mr.
Beaty.
Commission proceeded to resume its discussion of possible find-
ings, recommendations and others. After much careful and prayer-
ful consideration the following resolution was adopted by a unani-
mous vote.
Copy of this resolution will be found attached.
Moved by Mr. Beatty that the statement of findings, recom-
mendations and orders as shown in the above resolution be signed
by Rev. W. B. Mcllwaine for the Commission and that he be here-
by authorized to so sign it. This motion was seconded and carried.
46 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
Mr. Beaty made a motion that all records of the Sharon matter
together with minutes of the Commission be placed in the hands of
the Presbytery for keeping. Seconded and carried.
The various members were asked to turn into the clerk their
expense accounts which were as follows :
Rev. W. B. S. Chandler Traveling Expense $12.00
Miss Rose Kennedy Stenographic Work 55-00
Total - $67.00 ^
Motion made, seconded and carried, that the Presbytery be re-
quested to make payment of the items.
Mr. Beaty made a motion that the Commission plead with the
Presbytery of Mecklenburg in session at the First Church, Char-
lotte, July i8th, that it be discharged. Motion seconded and carried.
Motion made for adjournment, seconded and carried. Commis-
sion adjourned with prayer led by Mr. Brown after the minutes of
this meeting were read and approved.
Signed : REV. P. W. WILSON, Clerk.
Approved : July 18, 1927.
This report was accepted and the diligence of the com-
mission commended. The commission was discharged.
Minutes and findings of the commission to be printed in
minutes of Presbytery. All other records connected with
the case are to be filed with the Stated Clerk of Presbytery.
Expenses of Commission ordered paid by Presbytery's
Treasurer.
A bill for printing evangelistic reports, $6.25, was or-
dered paid by Presbytery's Treasurer.
Presbytery then took up the judicial case of Dr. Ayer
Whitley and Philadelphia Church. Dr. Whitley had been
suspended by the session. The following appeal was re-
ceived and placed before Presbytery.
AN APPEAL TO PRESBYTERY
Appeal of Dr. Ayer Whitley, Defendant, from the decision of
the Session of Philadelphia Church in his recent trial and condemna-
tion on the charge of having had immoral relations with Mrs. Annie
May Barnes.
Specifications of Error :
Mistake and injustice in the judgment and censure. In
other words, the decision of the court was contrary to the
evidence.
Manifestation of prejudice in the case.
Refusal to receive proper evidence.
These charges are set forth at length in Dr. Whitley's notice to
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 47
the session of Philadelphia Church of his appeal from their judg-
ment to the Presbytery of Mecklenburg.
We ask the Presbytery to reverse the decision of the session of
Philadelphia Church, and to declare Dr. Whitley not guilty of the
charge.
The evidence in the case was read. Rev. W. B. Mcll-
waine spoke for appellant, L. W. Brown for appellee and
Rev. W. B. Mcllwaine made rebuttal.
The vote on the Philadelphia case was taken by rising
vote, result :
1st: Specification sustained.
2nd : Specification not sustained.
3rd : Specification not sustained.
Moved that Dr. Whitley be reinstated in full member-
ship in Philadelphia Church.
Substitute motion made that the case be remanded to
the church for a new hearing.
Substitute motion was carried.
The evidence was filed with the Stated Clerk.
During the vote, Mr. Geo. E. Wilson was seated in Pres-
bytery as a representative of Myers Park Church in place
of Mr. J. T. Wardlaw, who had been excused.
On motion made and carried that the Treasurer of the
Presbytery be authorized to pay Leadership Training Com-
mittee a sum not to exceed $75.00 as balance on Daily Va-
cation Bible Schools.
After reading and approval of minutes Presbytery ad-
journed to meet on the 19th of September at 2 p. m., in
First Church, Charlotte, N. C.
Presbytery closed with prayer by Dr. J. R. Bridges.
W. B. McILWAINE, Moderator.
W. H. JOHNSTON, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
CALLED MEETING
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in called session at the
First Church, Charlotte, N. C, on August 5th, at 11 a. m.,
and was called to order by Rev. Lynn R. Walker, D.D., Mod-
erator. The meeting was opened with prayer.
The following were present:
Lynn R. Walker, J. G. Garth, J. C. McGehee, R. W. Cul-
bertson, J. W. Grier, L. W. Brown, B. F. Yandell, M. E.
Peabody, A. R. Shaw, C.'W. Somerville, S. B. Lyerly, R. S.
Burwell, W. H. Johnston.
Elders : C. S. Harkey, Philadelphia; Geo. E. Wilson, Jr.,
Myers Park ; Wm. Anderson, Second Church ; C. F. Brown,
Steele Creek ; F. S. Neal, Sugaw Creek.
The call was read as follows :
The constitutional requirements having been met, I
hereby call a meeting of Mecklenburg Presbytery to meet
in Charlotte, First Presbyterian Church at 11 a. m., August
5, 1927, to attend to the following business :
1. To hear a request from the session that a judicial
commission be appointed to assume original jurisdiction in
that church so that the commission may conduct and con-
clude a judicial process in the Dr. Ayer Whitley case, which
was remanded to the session for new trial.
2. To grant this request if the way is clear.
3. To consider any other matters connected with the
above.
The call was found in order.
Rev. S. B. Lyerly was appointed temporary clerk.
Rev. L. W. Brown, pastor of Philadelphia Church, read
the following request :
The session of Philadelphia Church do hereby request
the Presbytery of Mecklenburg to assume jurisdiction in
that church, and appoint a judicial commission to conduct
and conclude a judicial process in the case of Dr. Ayer Whit-
ley, which was remanded for trial to the session, because
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 49
the session feels its incompetence under the circumstances
to handle the case.
The Moderator declared the case was one of reference,
and called for a motion. It was moved and carried that a
judicial commission be appointed in accordance with the re-
quest, the Presbytery assuming jurisdiction.
The following were appointed: Revs. S. B. McLean,
chairman, R. W. Culbertson, B. F. Yandell, J. G. Garth, and
ruling elders, William Anderson and F. S. Neal. The
quorum shall be a quorum of Presbytery.
The minutes were read, and approved. Presbytery ad-
journed with prayer.
LYNN R. WALKER, Moderator.
S. B. Lyerly, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
CALLED MEETING
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in called session in First
Church, Charlotte, at 11 o'clock, August 31, 1927.
Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine took the chair as last Moderator
present.
Presbytery was constituted with prayer by Rev. Frank
Grier.
Following ministers and elders were present:
Ministers : A. S. Johnston, R. J. Mcllwain, A. R. Shaw-W.
C. Underwood, Frank Grier, J. W. Grier, J. G. Garth, Q. N.
Huneycutt, L. W. Brown, B. B. Shankel S. A. Ewart, C. H.
Rowan, M. E. Peabody, S. B. McLean, W. H. Johnston, G.
C. Huntington, W. H. Matheson, R. S. Burwell, B. F. Yan-
dell, J. M. Walker.
Elders: W. L. Wallis, Tenth Avenue; F. S. Neal,
Sugaw Creek; J. D. Woodside, St. Paul; E. M. McGee, Mc-
Gee ; T. W. Bigham, Mulberry; Geo. E. Wilson, Myers
Park ; W. F. Baker, Sharon ; C. L. Hurdle, Newell ; H. Q.
Alexander, Providence.
The call as follows was found in order:
The constitutional requirements having been met, I hereby call
a meeting of Mecklenburg Presbytery to convene at First Church,
Charlotte, N. C, Wednesday, August 31, 1927, at 11 a. m., for the
following business :
1. To hear the request of Rev. M. E. Peabody, to dissolve the
pastoral relation at Sugaw Creek Church.
2. To receive the reply of Sugaw Creek Church to the request
above.
3. To attend to any other matters connected with the business
in hand.
LYNN R. WALKER, Moderator.
Hamlet, N. C, August 15, 1927.
The call above was also in the behalf of Rev. S. A. Ewart,
with reference to his pastorates at McGee and Mulberry
Churches, with the changes necessary being made.
Rev. M. E. Peabody requested that the pastoral rela-
tion between himself and Sugaw Creek Church be dissolved.
After hearing from the church the request was granted.
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Mr. Peabody was given permission to labor without the
bounds of Presbytery until fall meting of Presbytery.
Request came from Rev. S. A. Ewart that the pastoral
relation be dissolved between himself and McGee and Mul-
berry churches. After hearing from the churches Presby-
tery granted the request.
Rev. S. A. Ewart was given a letter of dismissal to Bethel
Presbytery.
Words of appreciation of the work of Mr. Ewart and
Mr. Peabody were spoken by a number of the brethren.
Presbytery adjourned with prayer by Rev. M. E. Pea-
body.
R. J. McILWAIN, Moderator.
Q. N. Huneycutt, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk,
ADJOURNED MEETING
September 19, 1927.
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in adjourned session at
First Church, Charlotte, on September 19, 1927, at 2 p. m.
Presbytery was called to order and constituted with
prayer by the Moderator Dr. Lynn R. Walker.
The following were present: *
Ministers : Lynn R. Walker, A. S. Johnson, R. W. Cul-
bertson, W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., C H. Rowan, W. H. John-
ston, J. W. Grier, R. J. Mcllwain, T. Frank Grier, S. B. Mc-
Lean, C E. White, L. W. Brown, W. T. Smith, H. E. Gur-
ney, J. F. Ligon, M. E. Peabody, A. A. Walker, J. M. Walk-
er, A. R. Shaw, B. B. Shankel, W. B. S. Chandler, W. C
Underwood, Q. N. Huneycutt, P. W. Wilson, S. B. Lyerly,
J. G. Garth.
Elders : Wm. Anderson, Second Church ; J. R. Wallace,
Lee Park; C. F. Brown, Steele Creek; J. C. Smith, Marsh-
ville; J. W. Miller, Amity; E. G. Cochran, Caldwell Memo-
rial.
Special prayer was offered by Dr. J. R. Bridges on be-
half of Dr. A. A. McGeachy, and the clerk was appointed to
convey the good-will and sympathy of Presbytery to him in
his serious illness.
Rev. E. S. Watson, of Pee Dee Presbytery and Rev. Geo.
F. Robertson, of Holston Presbytery were introduced and
invited to sit as visiting brethren.
Wilson W. Moore was granted a letter of dismissal to
Abingdon Presbytery, and T. F. Grier to Bethel.
Dr. Chas. R. Nisbet presented a letter of dismissal from
Upper Missouri Presbytery. After the usual examination
he was enrolled as a member of Presbytery.
A call to Caldwell Memorial Church for the pastoral serv-
ices of Dr. Nisbet having been previously found in order was
placed in his hands. He accepted the call.
The following committee was appointed to install Dr.
Nisbet, and 16th of October, 11a. m., was set for the date of
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 53
installation : Drs. W. H. Frazer, A. S. Johnson, and Rev.
G. C. Huntington, with elders W. E. Price and J. B. Ross.
Report of Judicial Commission to conduct and conclude
judicial process in the Dr. Ayer Whitley case was read, and
after discussion was adopted as follows :
To the Presbytery of Mecklenburg:
The Judicial Commission appointed by Presbytery to conduct
and conclude judicial process in the Dr. Ayer Whitley case respect-
fully reports that two sessions were held by the Commission at
which this matter was under consideration. Rev. J. G. Garth was
elected as Secretary of the Commission.
Upon information received by the Commission that Dr. Whitley
had united with Mt. Harmony Baptist Church, careful inquiry was
instituted to determine positively as to the fact, and written state-
ments, signed by the Pastor and a Deacon of that Church, were ob-
tained, to the effect that Dr. Whitley and his wife "joined Mt.
Harmony Baptist Church during the meeting which began the first
Sunday of August, 1927" and "are in full fellowship with us."
Having severed his connection with the Presbyterian Church by
becoming a member of a church of another denomination, the
Commission is of the opinion that jurisdiction no longer inheres in
the Presbyterian Church to conduct and conclude judicial process
against him and therefore recommends to the Presbytery that the
case be dismissed and that the Commission be discharged. It is
further recommended that the Session of Philadelphia Presbyterian
Church be directed by the Presbj^tery to make proper entry to this
effect in its minutes and upon its roll book.
Respectfully submitted,
S. B. McLEAN,
Chairman of the Commission.
MINUTES OF JUDICIAL COMMISSION
DR. AYER WHITLEY CASE
The committee met at the call of the chairman. Rev. S. B. Mc-
Lean, at the First Church, Charlotte, N. C, on September 5, 1927.
Opened with prayer. Present: S, B. McLean, R. W. Culbertson, B.
F. Yandell, J. G. Garth, William Anderson and C. F. Brown. F. S.
Neal was absent. A quorum was present. Rev. J. G, Garth was
elected secretary.
The chairman outlined the history of the Ayer Whitley case,
and stated the object of the meeting. A communication from Rev.
L. W. Brown, pastor of Philadelphia Church was read which stated
that he had learned from several officers in the Mt. Harmony Bap-
tist Church, that Dr. Ayer Whitley had united with that congrega-
tion on his own statement. On motion the chairman was instructed
to secure verification of this fact to present to the commission.
The commission then adjourned with prayer to meet at the call
of the chairman.
J. G. GARTH, Secretary.
54 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
The commission met on September 19th in the First Church,
Charlotte, with all members present. Opened with prayer. Minutes
were read and approved. The chairman read statements from the
pastor and one deacon stating that Dr. Ayer Whitley had been re-
ceived as a member of Mt. Harmony Baptist Church. The com-
mittee adopted a report to Presbytery (See minutes of Presbytery
above). The commission's minutes were read and approved. Ad-
journed with prayer.
J. G. GARTH, Secretary.
S. B. McLEAN, Chairman.
Adopted by Presbytery :
Rev. W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., registered his protest in the
action of Presbytery in adopting report of the commission :
For the reason that the case was unjustly referred to a
commission in as much as the defendant, Dr. Ayer Whitley,
had been adjudged not guilty by vote of the Presbytery, I
protest against the action of Presbytery in adopting the
commission's report.
W. B. McILWAINE, JR.
A petition from Euto to organize a Presbyterian Church
at that place was presented and a commission was appoint-
ed to organize the church.
Rev. A. A. Walker was made a member of the commis-
sion to organize a church at Euto.
Rev. J. G. Garth presented report of Presbytery for
Synod, which was adopted.
Motion was made and carried that the Synodical tax be
paid.
Presbytery adjourned with prayer by Rev. B. B. Shankel.
LYNN R. WALKER, Moderator.
Q. N. HUNEYCUTT, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
APPENDIX
REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF HOME
MISSIONS TO MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
Meeting in St. Paul Church, October 18, 1927
Your Committee on Home Missions would respectfully submit
the following report :
The first half of the church year has been marked by a number
of encouraging things, all tending to show that some fine work is
being done by the men on the field. Things that have given heart
to your committee as it has patiently labored over many of the per-
plexing problems which face us in this work are hereby recorded.
Evangelism
For one thing it has been a great revival season in many of our
home mission fields. Twenty odd meetings have been held during
the summer, and these have been attended with most excellent re-
sults, both in the ways of conversions and additions to our church.
These meetings have resulted also in the deepening and quickening
the spiritual life of the membership of these churches. If the pres-
et rate of increase keeps up for the rest of the year then your com-
mittee will be able to report at the end of the year the largest num-
ber of accessions to the church from the home mission fields we
have reported for a number of years. It is this phase of the work
that is so encouraging to your committee, and should encourage us
all in our home mission task. Our faithful and efficient Superin-
tendent, Rev. A. A. Walker, has given most of his time this summer
to this special phase of the work. Out of this evangelistic move-
ment which is spreading out through the churches we look for a
new day to dawn in our home mission work. A detailed report of
this work has been made by the Superintendent in his report on
Evangelism.
New Church Organized
Just recently a new church was organized at Euto in the north-
ern part of Union County. This church grew out of the efficient
labors of Rev. C. E. White, of Marshville, who has been preaching
at this mission point for some time. This is one of those places
also where they have had a great revival this summer. There are
many other just such places in the bounds of our Presbytery that
are calling to us* to come in and possess the land. It is our day in
home mission work, if we have the vision to see it and the courage
to enter in.
New Men
We have had a number of new men to come into our work this
summer, and they are giving a good account of their stewardship.
Rev. A. L. McDuffie has entered upon his work as pastor of
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Candor-, Macedonia, and Biscoe churches. He has also taken over
Rubyat, a mission point formerly of the Ellerbe group. The church
at Candor is now worshipping in their handsome new church build-
ing. They have also bought a lot for a manse, and expect to have
the house completed by the first of January. Lot and manse to cost
them about $5,000. The church at Biscoe, which has been without
a church building of their own, has recently bought a most beautiful
half-acre lot in the finest part of the town on which they propose to
build right away the first unit of their plant at a cost of $5,000.
Rev. T. H. Mitchell, from Concord Presbytery, has accepted a
call from the Indian Trail and Siler churches, and began work there
the first Sunday in the month.
During the summer five seminary students were given work un-
der your committee, four from Columbia and one from Union. Those
from Columbia were : J. S. McFall, supplying Morven, Lilesville and
Camden; M. B. Prince, supplying Peachland and Polkton ; T. F.
Wallace, supplying Bethlehem, Unionville, and Midland; S. T. Har-
vie, supplying Troy, Wadeville and Star; W. G. Thomas, of Union
Seminary, supplying Ellerbe, Mt. Carmel, and Norman.
Arrangements have been made with all these young men, with
the exception of Mr. Wallace and Harvie, to supply these respective
fields during the winter, returning one or two Sundays a month, and
then at the close of their seminary year to return to these fields for
the summer.
Your committee, by the consent of Presbytery, has formed a
new group in Richmond County, consisting of Marston, Marks
Creek, Rourk's Chapel, and McLean Memorial, the pastor to live at
Marston. This is one of the most promising fields in the great
peach section. The Marston church has finished paying all they
owe on their new church building. Besides they have provided a
manse for the preacher. McLean Memorial and Rourk's Chapel are
planning for new church buildings. These together with the fine old
church of Mark's Creek should do a most excellent piece of work
for the Lord in that section. J. A. Mclntyre is serving them most ac-
ceptably. He will move his family from Ellerbe to Marston.
Manse Needed
The Wilmoore Church is now occupying their new church build-
ing, which they have built at a cost of about $17,000, and the work
here is growing by leaps and bounds. They are now putting forth
a special effort to buy a lot and build a manse for their pastor. The
lot and building they estimate will cost them $6,000. It is a much
needed building.
Churches Under Care of Home Mission Committee
We now have 48 churches under the care of the Home Mission
Committee, counting the new church at Euto, hereinafter to be
known as Tabernacle (we have a recommendation touching the
grouping of that church in this report). These 48 churches are
grouped into 20 separate pastoral charges. In addition there are
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 57
some half dozen mission points in these groups. Just now five
groups are vacant: North Charlotte; Ellerbe, Mt. Carmel, and Nor-
man, Roberdel, Brainard and Cameronian; Bethlehem, Unionville,
and Midland; Troy, Wade, and Star.
Recommendations
We offer the following recommendations :
1. That the new church at Euto be grouped with Marshville.
2. Supplies be granted as follows : Euto, C. E. White ; Badin
and Palestine, A. S. Anderson; Stanfield, T. F. Huneycutt ; Page-
land, Beulah, Salem, W. P. Chedester; Marston, Mark's Creek, Mc-
Lean Memorial, Rourk's Chapel, J. A. Mclntyre.
3. In view of the importance of Home Missions, and the numer-
ous calls coming to your committee for help both in the support of
pastors, and in the aiding of churches to build. Presbytery urges
each church in the Presbytery to pay in full its apportionment to
Home Missions, namely, 15 per cent. To date we have received on
a budget of $26,226, only $8,612; leaving the sum of $17,614 to be paid
by the end of the year. We need every penny of it if we are to do
our best work.
Signed : J. M. WALKER, Chairman.
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MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
Comparative Summary for Five Years
1923 1924 1925 1926 1927
Ministers - 60 59 61 58 58
Candidates 24 15 23 25 28
Churches 86 88 90 92 93
Conversions 521 663 850 694 576
Communicants 14,033 14,474 15,230 15,584 15,047
Sunday School Enrollment 11,257 13,385 13,281 13,505 12,953
y-'-^ y Airar-s 697 787 894 744 822
Tithers 1,454 1,761 1,924 1,741 1,625
Value of Churches $1,696,401
Value of Manses 205,300
Debt on Church Property 213,982
CONTRIBUTIONS
Foreign Missions $ 45,829 $ 59,921 $ 64,048 $ 61,296 $ 77,160
Assembly's Home Missions 16,185 19,822 20,947 20,976 27,410
Christian Education and Min. Relief _ 9,989 10,771 9,684 11,276 11,535
Publication and S. S. Work 3,123 3,044 3,244 3,657 3,573
Assembly's Training School 892
Bible Cause 697 784 821 984 1,082
Assembly's Causes $ 75,823 $ 94,342 $ 98,744 $ 98,189 $121,752
Synod's Home Missions $ 9,519 $ 11,266 $ 10,844 $ 13,269 $ 14,800
Orphans' Home 28,029 34,666 23,992 25,561 39,377
Educational Institutions _— 28,556 19,400 21,507 , 25,082 38,920
Presbyterial Home Missions 16,042 18,886 18,153 ^23,954 22,400
Synod's and Presbytery's Causes $ 82,146 $ 84,218 $ 74,496 $ 87,866 $115,506
Denominational Benevolences $157,969 $178,560 $173,240 $186,055 $237,258
Pastors' Salaries — -h $ 71,206 $ 77,427 $ 82,022 $ 84,104 $ 81,900
Current Expenses 195,594 184,244 196,734 149,105 117,011
Congregational Home Missions 7,707 11,216 7,771 6,590 2,758
Buildings, Etc. 82,233
Local Church $274,507 $272,887 $286,527 $249,799 $283,902
Miscellaneous -— ' $ 21,433 $ 30,143 $ 28,081 $ 17,152 $ 23,667
GRAND TOTAL $453,909 $481,590 $487,848 $453,006 $544,827
EVERY MEMBER CANVASS
1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928
Benevolent Askings _- $167,944 $177,435 $153,410 $174,581 $176,754 $175,855
Amt. Sub. to Benevolence _._ $132,887 $132,887 $141,921 $152,638 $153,390 $172,715
Amt. Sub. to Cur. Exp. 144,291 144,291 165,700 189,081 193,068 196,305
Total $277,178 $277,178 $307,621 $341,719 $246,458 $369,020
No. Sub. to Benevolences 6,127 6,127 6,859 7,591 7,400 7,050
No. Sub. to Cur. Exp. 6,502 6,502 8,021 8,493 8,461 7,979
Total 12,629 12,629 14,880 16,084 15,861 15,029
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14. Men's Work— P. S. Gilchrist, C. P. Brown, H. J. Spencer, J. M.
Oldham, J. P. Marsh, M. E. Trotter, J. M. Harris.
15. Sessional Records— W. T. Smith, R. S. Burwell, Q. N. Huney-
cutt, and five Elders.
16. Examinations:
(i) Experimental Piety — The Moderator.
(2) Academic Studies — R. W. Culbertson.
(3) Languages— Latin Thesis and Greek Exegesis— C. W. Somer-
ville, J, W. Grier.
(4) Natural and Exact Sciences — H. E. Gurney, C. H. Little.
(5) Mental and Moral Philosophy, Logic and Rhetoric — W. H.
Frazer, W. B. S. Chandler.
(6) Theology— A. S. Johnson, A. A. McGeachy, C. H. Rowan.
(7) Church History— J. M. Walker, W. H. Matheson.
(8) Church Government and Sacraments — M. E. Peabody, R. S.
Burwell.
TRUSTEES OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
1. Davidson — R. A. Dunn, H. N. Pharr — terms expire 1928; A. A.
McGeachy, J. P. Matheson, W. H. Belk — terms expire 1930.
2. Queens— A. A. McGeachy, T. M. Glasgow, J. L. Choate, P. S.
Gilchrist — terms expire 1928; J. Arthur Henderson, E. E. Jones,
A. J. Crowell — terms expire 1929; E. A. McCausland, J. W. Mc-
Clung, Hunter Marshall — terms expire 1930.
3. Albemarle — M. J. Harris, A. C. Huneycutt, A. E. McCausland —
terms expire 1928; R. J. Mcllwain, F. S. Neal, W. H. Belk — terms
expire 1929; J. M. Harry, J. W. Stork, J. H. McCrae, J. M. Mor-
row, Mrs. W. E. Milton, Lynn R. Walker — terms expire 1930.
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MINUTES
of
MECKLENBURG
PRESBYTERY
APRIL 1042, 1928
117th STATED SESSION
Mt. Gilead, N. C.
ADJOURNED MEETING
At First Church, Charlotte, N. C.
December 5, 1927
CALLED MEETINGS
At First Church, Charlotte, N. C.
January 23, 1928
Maxton, N. C.
November 29, 1927
DIRECTORY
Rev. J. G. Garth, Moderator Charlotte, N. C.
Rev. J. G. Garth, Stated Clerk Charlotte, N. C.
Rev. J. W. Stork, Permanent Clerk Mt. Gilead. N. C
Trustees of Presbytery — H. C. Alexander, Hunter Marshall, Jr., J. L.
Choate.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Presbytery's Home Missions — J. M. Walker, C. G. Long, W. B. S.
Chandler, C. H. Rowan, Lynn R. Walker, C. H. Little, F. S.
Neal, W. H. Belk, T. J. Smith, C. P. Brown, W. E. Price, J. F.
Ligon, Dr. R. H. Lafferty.
PERMANENT COMMITTEES
1. Foreign Missions — E. G. Gammon, C. G. Long, W. L. Wallis,
J. Arthur Henderson, M. B. Spier.
2. Assembly's Home Missions — J. F. Ligon, C. H. Little, A. S.
Anderson, Jno. B. Ross.
3. Christian Education and Ministerial Relief — J. W. Grier, L. W.
Brown, J. W. McClung.
4. Religious Education — General Chairman : S. B. Lyerly.
(i) Children's Division : W. M. Wilcox, W. E. Price.
(2) Young People's Division : P. W. Wilson, M. E. Peabody, F.
H. Bierman.
(3) Sunday School Extension : J. G. Garth, H. J. Spencer.
(4) Leadership Training: B. F. Yandell, G. M. Beaty, Dr. R. H.
Lafferty.
5. Bible Cause— S. B. Lyerly, J. W. Stork, Dr. H. Q. Alexander.
6. Synod's Home Missions— L E. Wallace, B. B. Shankel, C. H.
Caldwell, D. S. Monteith.
7. Orphans* Home — W. H. Johnston, R. W. Culbertson, Wm.
Anderson, W. A. Jamison.
8. Schools and Colleges— C. R. Nisbet, L E. Wallace, B. F. Yandell,
J. R. Bridges, Beatty Faires, G. M. Rose, Jr.
9. Sabbath and Family Religion — R. J. Mcllwain, W. S. Hamiter,
Thos. Spratt, Wm. Ross.
10. Evangeliism— A. A. Walker, C. E. White, T. G. Hardie.
11. Men's and Women's Societies — L. R. Walker, W. C. Underwood,
J. R. Irwin.
12. Auditing — J. F. Jamison, J. O. Thomas.
13. Stewardship — S. B. McLean, H .E. Gurney, W. H. Frazer, L. R.
Walker, W. E. Price, M. B. Spier, F. S. Neal, J. H. Wearn.
(Continued on back inside cover)
MINUTES
of
MECKLENBURG
PRESBYTERY
117th STATED SESSION
Mt. Gilead, N. C.
ADJOURNED MEETING
At First Church, Charlotte, N. C.
December 5, 1927
CALLED MEETINGS
At First Church, Charlotte, N. C.
January 23, 1928
Maxton, N. C,
November 29, 1927
CALLED MEETING
Maxton, N. C, November 29, 1927.
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in called session at the
First Presbyterian Church, Maxton, N. C, at 2 o'clock, No-
vember 29, 1927. Rev. Lynn R. Walker, D.D., as last moder-
ator present presided. The meeting opened with prayer.
The foUowang w^ere present at the meeting:
Ministers : L. R. Walker, J. G. Garth, W. B. Mcllwaine,
J. A. Caligan, W. H. Johnston, T. M. Stribling, A. L. Mc-
Duffie, C. H. Rowan, W. B. S. Chandler, A. A. Walker, C. R.
Nisbet, S. B. McLean.
Elders : J. Arthur Henderson, Second Church ; C. A.
Bland, Wadesboro ; Mason W. Woodsides, Caldwell Memo-
rial ; J. A. Mclntyre, Ellerbe ; W. A. Wilkes, Marks Creek;
J. L. Cashion, Marston.
The call was read and was found in order.
THE CALL
The constitution requirements having been met I hereby call
Mecklenburg Presbytery to meet at 2 p. m. Tuesda}^, November 29th,
said meeting to be held in the Presbyterian church at Maxton, N. C.,
for the purpose of hearing the report of the special committee ap-
pointed at the recent meeting of Mecklenburg Presbytery to act
with a like committee from Fayetteville Presbytery to consider the
advisability of establishing a Junior College under the ownership
and control of these Presbyteries ; and to take whatever action as
shall be deemed wise or necessary in consideration of the whole
matter.
J. M. WALKER, Moderator.
Presbytery then voted to unite in joint session with Fay-
etteville Presbytery at Carolina College, and repaired at
once to the auditorium of this school.
At the close of the joint session, the Presbytery then re-
sumed its session, and adopted the following resolution,
which had been recommended by the joint session to both
Presbyteries :
RESOLUTION TOUCHING CAROLINA COLLEGE
Resolved that this joint session of Fayetteville and
Mecklenburg Presbyteries recommend to the S3'nod of
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North Carolina the establishment of a Junior College for
boys, and that the Synod accept the generous offer of the
Carolina College property at Maxton, N. C, from the Meth-
odist Conference of North Carolina for that purpose.
2. That the respective Presbyteries meet immediately
on adjournment of the joint session, and take such action as
may be necessary for the calling of a special meeting of
Synod at Maxton, February 14, 1928, when this recommen-
dation shall be presented, this meeting to be held in the
auditorium of Carolina College.
It was moved and carried that the Stated Clerk of this
Presbytery co-operate with the Clerk of Fayetteville Pres-
bytery in calling this meeting of Synod.
After the reading of the minutes, Presbytery adjourned
with prayer.
J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
LYNN R. WALKER, Moderator, protem.
ADJOURNED MEETING
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in adjourned session at the
First Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, N. C, on Monday,
December 5, 1927, at 2 p. m. Rev. J. M. Walker, the Mod-
erator, called the meeting to order, and the Presbytery was
opened with prayer by Rev. A. S. Johnson, D.D. Rev. S. B.
McLean was chosen Temporary Clerk.
ROLL
Ministers : J. M. Walker, J. G. Garth, A. A. Walker, J
W. Grier, A. R. Shaw, J. R. Bridges, G. C. Huntington, R. W
Culbertson, L. W. Brown, C. H. Little, L E. Wallace, C R
Nisbet, A. S. Johnson, R. W. Burwell, W. H. Johnston, R. J
Mcllwain, C. C. Beam, W. T. Smith, B. F. Yandell, C. H
Rowan, S. B. Lyerly, S. B. McLean, M. E. Peabody, W. S
Hamiter, W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., W. H. Matheson, J. F
Ligon, and T. H. Mitchell.
Elders : O. W. Potts, Banks ; M. W. Woodside, Caldwell
Memorial; C. M. Hutchinson, Amitv; J. L. Lawing, Hope-
well; H. W. Bigham, Mulberry; W.^B. Choate, Steel Creek.
Rev. J. W. Grier, chairman of the Committee of Chris-
tian Education and Ministerial Relief made the following
report which was adopted ; with the amendment that the
chairman communicate with our candidates who are not
pursuing their studies, and ascertain their activities and
their intentions. The report follows :
Your committee on Christiari_Education respectfully submits the
following report :
We have 27 candidates for the ministry.
B. F. Brown, C. K. Poole, P. P. Thrower, H. T. Rummage, F. J.
Knox, and W. B. McSwain are at Davidson College.
J. M. Davis is in the Presbyterian College of South Carolina.
Jonathan Smith is at King College.
H. W. Alexander is in Kentucky Seminary.
G. C. Crowell, S. E. Howie, W. G. Thomas, and M. B Moss are
at Union Seminary.
M. C. Yeargan is at Austin Seminary.
E. F. Lothery, Claude Mcintosh, and T. F. Wallace are in Co-
lumbia Seminary.
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E. P. Houghton, J. A. Mclntyre, C. L. Norwood, J. D. Withrow,
and Waldo Love are working.
Your chairman has not been able to hear from J. M. Ellis, Jack
Hand, J. F. Hutchinson, John Munsey Smith, or Guy E. Weeks.
We recommend that the following loans be made by Central
Committee :
G. C. Crowell $150.00
J. M. Davis ^- 150.00
S. E. Howie 100.00
E. F. Lothery 150.00
Claude Mcintosh 150.00
W. B. McSwain 150.00
M. R. Moss 150.00
C. K. Poole 150.00
H. T. Rummage 150.00
W. G. Thomas 150.00
P. P. Thrower 150.00
T. F. Wallace 150.00
B. F. Brown 125.00
We recommend that loans be made by our Central Committee
to the following young ladies.
Miss Annie Hamiter, Assembly Training School $150.00
Miss EHzabeth Little, Flora Macdonald College 150.00
Miss Lucile Caine, Assembly Training School 150.00
J. W. GRIER, Chairman.
Mr. Morris E. Trotter, who had examined the accounts
was temporarily added to the audit committee, and his ap-
proval of the accounts of the committee was accepted as an
audit.
Rev. S. B. Lyerly reported that he had a balance of $57
in his hands as chairman of Religious Education Committee,
and asked for instructions. He was directed to return the
amounts to the two treasurers, Rev. J. G. Garth and W. E.
Price, for their respective funds, Presbytery's treasury and
that of Home Missions, the amount to be divided equally
between these treasuries.
Installation of Rev. C. R. Nisbet at CaldWell Memorial
The commission to install Rev. C. R. Nisbet, D.D., at
Caldwell Memorial made its report, and the report was
adopted as follows :
The commission to install Dr. C. R. Nisbet, pastor Caldwell
Memorial Presbyterian Church, met Sunday at 11 a. m., October 30,
1927, in the church. Commission constituted with prayer by Dr. A. S.
Johnson.
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Present: Dr. W. H. Frazer, Dr. A. S. Johnson, Rev. G. C. Hunt-
ing-ton, Dr. J. H. Henderlite and Elder W. E. Price.
On motion Dr. Henderlite was invited to sit w^ith the commis-
sion as a visiting brother.
Dr. W. H. Frazer was elected Moderator and W. E. Price, Sec-
retary.
Elder John B. Ross reported as ill and could not be present.
Dr. W. H. Frazer presided, propounded questions to pastor and
people and also delivered the charge to the congregation.
Dr. J. H. Henderlite preached the sermon from Hebrews, 12th
chapter, 27th verse.
Dr. A, S. Johnson charged the pastor. After prayer and bene-
diction by newly installed pastor commission adjourned.
W. E. PRICE, Secretary.
Rev. A. R. Shaw, D.D., chairman of the Sugaw Creek
commission, reported that the commission had assumed
charge of the church and its controversies and would merely
indicate progress. The report was adopted and the commis-
sion continued.
Rev. W. P. Chedester, who had been supplying Pageland
group under the care of the Home Mission Committee asked
to be relieved of his work and permitted to labor out of the
bounds of Presbytery till spring meeting, which request was
granted.
It was ordered that Mulberry be relieved of its pledge
for benevolences for the fourth quarter of the present fiscal
year, that this church be permitted to separate itself from
the group with McGee Church in order that it might call a
pastor for his whole time.
Mulberry was authorized to prosecute a call for the serv-
ices of Rev. J. C. Grier, of Winston-Salem Presbytery at a
salary of $1,800 per year.
North Charlotte was given permission to prosecute a call
for Rev. A. F. Doty, of Asheville Presbytery.
It was ordered that the minutes of the called meeting of
Presbytery at Maxton, November 29th, in joint session with
Fayetteville Presbytery, be corrected to include the report
of the special committee on a Junior College which acted
with a similar committee of Fayetteville Presbytery .
The expense of the special committee just mentioned
was ordered paid, amounting to $13.50.
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Rev. A. A. Walker was relieved as a member of the spe-
cial committee on the Junior College, and Rev. Lynn R.
Walker, D.D,, was named as chairman. Rev. W. B. Mcll-
waine was added to the committee.
An advisory committee for the Presbyterian Standard
was appointed as follows : Revs. W. H. Frazer, A. S. John-
son, C. W. Somerville, and elders R. A. Dunn and W. H.
Belk.
A communication asking the reopening of the Sharon
controversy settled by Presbytery in July, 1927, was re-
ceived, but Presbytery declined to reopen the matter, and
ordered the paper to be recorded in the minutes with the
disposition hereby tendered it. The petition follows :
PETITION ABOUT SHARON CONTROVERSY
Addressed to the Committee of Bills and Overtures
We, the undersigned would respectfully request your committee to
present to Presbytery at its next meeting the following overture. We do
not believe the request made by Presbytery at its meeting in Sharon
January 20th, last, that the congregation of that church re-elect the
eight old deacons, who have resigned, and no others, has been ad-
hered to as ordered by Presbytery and agreed to by the congrega-
tion. Inasmuch as the pastor, session and congregation all solemnly
promised to accept this aforesaid election as a solution to the trouble
which existed in said church at that time and as they failed inten-
tionally and premeditatedly to keep this sacred compact, we feel
that Presbytery has just cause to declare that the election of other
deacons than those agreed to is null and void. We refer you to the
records of Presbytery touching this matter. We feel that such a
breach of faith and contract on the part of pastor, session, and con-
gregation should not go unpunished.
Respectfully submitted,
C. M. HUTCHISON.
J. P. SAMPLE.
C. B. CHOATE.
W. B. CHOATE
W. B. HUTCHISON
W. J. WILLIAMS.
N. C. WHITE.
After reading minutes, Presbytery adjourned with
prayer.
J. M. WALKER, Moderator.
S. B. McLEAN, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
CALL MEETING
Charlotte, N. C, January 23, 1928.
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in called session at First
Church, Charlotte, N. C, January 23, 1928, at 10 a. m. The
last moderator present. Rev. C. E. White, called the meeting
to order and asked Dr. C .W. Somerville to lead in prayer.
Rev. S. B. Lyerly was elected temporary clerk. The fol-
lowing were present :
Ministers : W. H. Matheson, E. G. Gammon, R. S. Bur-
well, C. R. Nisbet, L. H. Query, C. H. Rowan, A. S. Johnson,
L. R. Walker, B. F. Yandell, C G. Long, W. T. Smith, P. W.
Wilson, W. C. Underwood, M. E. Peabody, W. H. Frazer,
C. E. White, S. B. McLean, J. G. Garth, S. B. Lyerly, L. W.
Brown, H. E. Gurney, J. W. Grier, C. W. Sommerville, W.
B. Mcllwaine, B. B. Shankel, W. S. Hamiter, W. H. John-
ston, J. R. Bridges, W. B. S. Chandler, A. R. Shaw, T. H.
Mitchell, J. F. Ligon, R. W. Culbertson, A. A. Walker, L E.
Wallace.
Elders : W. B. Reid, Westminster; C. M. Hutchison, Am-
ity; W. A. Rogers, Pineville ; W. M. Wilcox, First, Char-
lotte.
The call was read as follows and found in order :
The constitutional requirements having been met. I hereby call
Mecklenburg Presbytery to meet in called session on Monday, Jan-
uary 23rd, at 10 a. m., in the First Presbyterian Church, Charlotte,
N. C, to attend to the following business :
1. To observe a season of prayer for a_ deeper consecration of
the Church, and for God's guidance and blessing on our Every Mem-
ber Canvass, March nth.
2. To receive ministers into the Presbytery and to arrange for
their installation as follows : A. F. Doty, at North Charlotte ; J. C.
Grier, at Mulberry, and W. C. Copeland, at Troy, Wadeville, and
Star.
3. To fix the date for the second adjourned meeting of Presby-
tery.
4. To attend to any matters growing out of the above items.
J. M. WALKER, Moderator.
Charlotte, N. C, January 12, 1928.
On motion the exercises were placed in the hands of
Rev. S. B. McLean, Presbytery's Secretary of Stewardship,
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who led a prepared program of intercession. The following
brethren made addresses on the subjects as assigned. Dr.
Lynn R. Walker, "The Place of Prayer in the Every Mem-
ber Canvass ;" Dr. E. G. Gammon, "Liberality a Test of
Spirituality;" Dr. E. E. Gillespie, "The Pastor's Opportunity
for Leadership in Raising the Benevolent Budget;" Mr. J.
B. Spillman, "The Need of the Church Today for a Baptism
of the Holy Spirit."
Each of these addresses was followed with a season of
prayer for the Church, in view of the approaching canvass
March 11th.
Presbytery took recess until 2:30.
AFTERNOON SESSION
Presbytery resumed business, again with a season of
prayer. Rev. Lynn R. Walker presided.
Rev. A. F. Doty, from Asheville Pi'esbytery, and W. C.
Copeland, from Winston-Salem Presbytery, were intro-
duced to Presbytery, and both presented certificates of dis-
missal to this Presbytery, which were read.
On motion, their examination was entered with a view to
receiving them as members of Presbytery. Dr. J. R.
Bridges examined both on experimental religion. Rev. C. H.
Rowan examined them on theology, and Dr. R. S. Burwell
examined them on church government. These examina-
tions were all sustained as satisfactory, and they were re-
ceived and their names ordered enrolled upon their signing
the covenant.
The call of the North Charlotte Church for the services
of Rev. A. F. Doty was read, found in order, and placed in
his hands. On his acceptance of the call the following were
appointed a commission to install Mr. Doty as pastor on
February 5th, at the evening service : Revs. A. S. Johnson,
C. H. Rowan, J. G. Garth, and ruling elders R. A. Dunn and
W. E. Price.
The calls for the pastoral services of Rev. W. C. Cope-
land from Troy, Wadeville, and Star were read, found in
order, and placed in Mr. Copeland's hands. He accepted
them, and the following commission was appointed to install
him on February 12th at all three of the churches : Revs.
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A. A. Walker, B. F. Yandell, T. H. Mitchell, P. W. Wilson,
with ruling elders W. E. Price and T. J. Smith.
A call for Rev. J. C. Grier to Mulberry Church was read
and found in order but Mr. Grier being absent on account
of sickness in his family, the call was left in the clerk's
hands.
As to the fourth item of the call for this meeting. Pres-
bytery declined to fix a time for an adjourned meeting.
Rev. M. F. Johnston, D.D., of New York Presbytery,
U. S. A., was introduced to Presbytery and invited to sit
as a visiting brother.
The minutes were read and approved. Presbytery ad-
journed with prayer.
LYNN R. WALKER, Moderator.
S. B. LYERLY, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
STATED SPRING SESSION
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in 117th stated session at
Mt. Gilead, N. C, Tuesday evening, April 10th at 8 p. m.,
and was opened with a sermon by the retiring Moderator,
Rev. J. M. Walker from Co. 1 :23.
The communion was administered by Rev. Lynn R.
Walker, D.D., and Rev. W. B. S. Chandler. Following this
service a memorial service was held honoring the late Rev.
William Black, D.D. The memorial was prepared by Rev.
A. S. Johnson, D.D., and was read by Rev. S. B. McLean.
The memorial was adopted and is as follows :
MEMORIAL OF REV. WILLIAM BLACK, D.D.
William Black came from the splendid strain of Highland Scotch
that flocked into North Carolina through the port of Wilmington
after the battle of Culloden. He was born in Maxton, N. C, of
godly parentage, educated at Tuscaloosa Academy, and felt called to
give his life to the study of law. He afterwards graduated from
law school and practiced in profession from i88i to 1893. Dr. Black
did not belong to that class who because of failure later changed his
profession. He honored the law by carrying into it the principles of
Christ and his honesty and fidelity in these principles gave him a
lucrative practice.
However, he was not satisfied with his success but felt that the
Master wanted him to preach the unsearchable riches of Jesus Christ
and on January 17, 1893 was licensed by Fayetteville Presbytery, and
ordained as an evangelist May 9, 1893, in this Presbytery, and for the
years 1893 and 1894 was evangelist for Union and Anson counties.
He was elected Superintendent of Synodical Missions in North
Carolina and held this position for three years, being elected gen-
eral evangelist of the Synod of North Carolina in 1897. He held
this position until the Savior called him into His presence to give an
account of his faithful ministry on November 22^, 1927.
These are simply the dates in the life of a great ministry, a min-
istry that was charged by passion and prayer and power, a ministry
that was charged by an unswerving loyalty to the Gospel of the
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, a ministry that was used of God in
building churches, in restoring waste places and adding many hun-
dreds, possibly thousands to the Church of Christ.
Dr. Black was a natural leader of men, of very fine physical
appearance. He had been captain of a militia company in his early
life and to many of his old friends he was still known as Captain
Black. He carried into his ministry some of the gifts that made him
a success as a lawyer. His preaching was direct and practical. He
was always trying to provoke a crisis in a man's life and argued with
a directness that wanted a verdict then and there for an acceptance
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of his Lord whom he loved so devotedly and whose love and peace
he wanted to share with those who crossed his path.
Dr. Black was constructive in his ministry, always looking for
new ideas for the advancement of the kingdom. He was the father
of the movement towards an Elder and Deacon Conference in the
state which had a tremendous influence as a forerunner of other
movements of this kind. He was the promoter of the Bible confer-
ences at Davidson in 1902 and to this conference some attribute the
growth of larger conferences that have since become so popular in
this Synod.
He was very active in the formation of the North Carolina Bible
League and in the semi-annual session of the league in the First
Presbyterian Church of Charlotte, N. C, a splendid recognition of
his activity and service made by a memorial service. His fine train-
ing in constitutional thinking made him resist to the fullest the anti-
Bible teaching in tax-supported schools and when he spoke on this
theme it was with a passion born of earnest conviction that to teach
evolution as a supported scientific theory with all of its adherent
evils was a violation of the rights of the great mass of people in the
state.
On Saturday, November 19, 1927, Dr. Black began evangelistic
services in the Bluff Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville Presbytery.
He was suffering from physical infirmities when he began the meet-
ing but was not willing to turn aside from the work of the Lord. He
preached three heart-searching and inspiring sermons on that day
and on Sunday morning he and his singer, Mr. Andrew Burr,
sang together, "Eternity Is Near." The gates were unfolding for him
as he sang it, and on November 23rd he was quickly and gloriously
called into the presence of his Lord. For him the strife is o'er, the
shadows have passed, and the consummation of all things has become
a reality.
"So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and
this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to
pass the saying that is written, death is swallowed up in victory. O
death, where is thy sting; O grave, where is thy victory? The sting
of death is sin ; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to
God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always
abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your
labor is not in vain in the Lord."
Respectfully submitted,
A. S. JOHNSON.
The roll was called and the following were found to be
present or came in later.
ROLL
Ministers : J. R. Bridges, A. R. Shaw, J. W. Grier, R. J .
Mcllwain, L. W. Brown, C. H. Little, B. B. Shankel, A. S.
Johnson, R. W. Culbertson, J. G. Garth, J. W. Stork. I. AL
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Walker, W. C. Underwood, W. H. Frazer, Q. N. Huneycutt,
W. S. Hamiter, S. B. Lyerly, T. F. Huneycutt, J. F. Ligon,
A. S. Anderson, W. B. S. Chandler, W. T. Smith, A. A.
Walker, I. E. Wallace, C. G. Long, C. W. Comerville, S. B.
McLean, L. R. Walker, W. H. Johnston, C. H. Rowan, T. M,
Stribbling, B. F. Yandell, P. W. Wilson, A. L. McDuffie, W.
H. Matheson, E. G. Gammon, C. R. Nisbet, T. H. Mitchell,
W. C. Copeland, A. F. Doty, J. C. Grier.
Churches represented : L. Wilson Jarman, Myers Park,
Charlotte ; W. R. Wearn, Second, Charlotte ; H. W. Harkey,
Westminster ; W. A. Rogers, Pineville ; W. R. Long, Sugaw
Creek ; S. E. True, Williams Memorial ; C G. Pepper, Ham-
let ; J. A. Mclntyre, Ellerbe ; D. T. Campbell, Paw Creek;
F. L. Pickett, Rockingham; E. M. McGee, McGee ; R. G.
White, Banks ; B. R. McCord, West Avenue ; C. W. Walton,
Munroe; W. A. Wilkes, Marks Creek; W. L. Allen, Tenth
Avenue; F. A. Cochran, Mallard Creek; J. W. McClung,
First, Charlotte; N. J. Phillips, Wilmore ; J. G. Caldwell,
Ramah; S. B. McPheeters, Caldwell Memorial; J. O. Stancil,
Amity ; W. L. Puckett, Cornelius ; A. F. Tiddy, Lee Park ;
N. A. Martin, Macedonia; E. L. Grier, Central Steel Creek;
J. W. Ewing, Biscoe ; N. C. White, St. Paul, Charlotte ; L. R.
Lisk, Candor ; H. T. Baldwin, Cameronian ; J. C Campbell,
Allen; J. H. Balch, Sharon.
A quorum being found present Presbytery was organized
with the election of Rev. J. G. Garth as Moderator, and
Rev. C. G. Long, Temporary Clerk.
The Committee on Orders reported and the report was
adopted and is as follows :
Hours for sessions of Presbytery: 9:00 a. m. to 12:30
p. m. ; 2 :00 p. m. to 6 :00 p. m. ; 8 :00 p. m. to adjourn at will.
Rev. B. F. Yandell was appointed to conduct the morn-
ing devotions on Wednesday morning.
The first order after election of commissioners to Gen-
eral Assembly on Wednesday afternoon was set to hear Dr.
Wm. J. Martin of Davidson College.
Rev. J. W. Stork, pastor of the Mt. Gilead Church ex-
tended a gracious welcome to Presbytery which was fit-
tingly responded to by the Moderator.
Candidate M. C. Yeargan was dismissed to Fort Worth
Presbytery in the Synod of Texas.
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Rev. J. C. Grier, of Winston-Salem Presbytery was in-
troduced and invited to sit as a visiting brother.
Presbytery adjourned to reconvene at 9:00 a. m., Wed-
nesday.
WEDNESDAY MORNING
Presbytery reconvened at 9:00 a. m., and was opened
w^ith a devotional period led by Rev. B. F. Yandell.
The minutes for Tuesday's session >vere read and ap-
proved.
Rev. J. C. Grier presented a certificate of dismission
from Winston-Salem Presbytery and after due examination
on experimental religion, theology and church government
he was received into the Presbytery after signing the cov-
enant.
Calls for pastoral services and various comr^.unications
were read and received as information or referred to the
proper committees.
The following commitees were appointed by the Mod-
erator :
Standing Committees
Devotionals: J. W. Stork and W. A. McAuley.
Bills and Overtures: J. M. Walker, A. R. Shaw, J. R.
Bridges, R. L. White, J. W. McClung.
Judicial: C. H. Rowan, W. R. Wearn, J. W. Grier, C. G.
Pepper.
Presbytery's Home Missions : W. H. Johnston, A. S. An-
derson, E. W. McGee, C. W. Walton.
Calls and Supplies: W. H. Matheson, A. F. Doty, L. W.
Jarman, H. M. Nicholson.
Records of Presbytery: W. C. Underwood, D. T. Camp-
bell, W. S. Hamiter, J. V. Ussery.
Leave of Absence: J. W. Stork and W. R. Long.
Minutes of Synod: T. M. Stribbling, J. C. Grier, F. L.
Pickett, W. W. Davenport, W. L. Allen.
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Presbytery's Assessment: S. B. McLean, J. R. McCord,
A. S. Johnson, H. W. Harkey, S. E. True.
Nominations: J. G. Garth, A. A. Walker, S. B. Mc-
Pheeters.
Thanks: T. H. Mitchell, R. W. Culbertson.
Sessional Records: W. T. Smith, C. H. Little, Q. N.
Huneycutt, A. L. McDuffie, T. H. Mitchell, J. A. Mclntyre,
W. A. Wilkes, F. A. Cochran, N, A. Martin, N. J. Phillips.
Dr. W. H. Frazer was given the third order of the aft-
ernoon to immediately follow Dr. W. J. Martin, in the in-
terests of Queens College.
The commission appointed to install Rev. W. C. Cope-
land at Troy, Wadeville, and Star reported. Their report
was adopted as follows :
INSTALLATION OF W. C. COPELAND
Commission appointed to install Rev. W. C. Copeland at Troy,
Wadeville and Star, met at Wadeville Sunday morning at ii o'clock,
February 12, 1928, and was constituted with prayer. The following
members being present : Revs. A. A. Walker, B. F. Yandell, P. W.
Wilson, T. H. Mitchell and Elder W. E. Price. Elder Price was
appointed secretary to commission.
Rev. A. A. Walker presided and propounded the questions; Rev.
P. W. Wilson preached the sermon from Mark i :3. Rev. B. F.
Yandell charged the pastor and Elder W. E. Price charged the con-
gregation. The commission was adjourned to reconvene at Star at
3 p. m.
Commission reconvened at Star in the Baptist Church at 3 p. m.
Rev. A. A. Walker presided and propounded the questions to pastor
and people. Rev. B. F. Yandle preached from text, Acts 4:13.
Rev. T. H. Mitchell charged the pastor and Elder W. E. Price
charged the congregation. The commission adjourned to meet at
Troy at 7 130 p. m.
The commission reconvened at Troy at 7:30 p. m., in county court
house. Rev. A. A. Walker presided and propounded questions to
the pastor and people. Rev. T. H. Mitchell preached from text,
Psa. 122. Rev. P. W. Wilson charged pastor and Elder W. E. Price
charged congregation. After prayer and benediction communion
adjourned.
W. E. PRICE, Secretary.
The commission to install Rev. A. F. Doty in the North
Charlotte Church reported and the report was adopted as
follows :
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COMMISSION TO INSTALL A. F. DOTY
The commission to install A. F. Doty pastor at North Charlotte
met at the church the evening of February 5th. The commission was
constituted by Rev. A. A. Walker, who presided, and propounded the
questions. Rev. J. G. Garth was appointed secretary-. Rev. C. H.
Rowan preached the sermon from Numbers 32:23; Rev. J. G. Garth
charged the pastor, and Mr. R. A. Dunn charged the people. Elder
W. E. Price was the remaining member of the commission.
A. A. WALKER, Chairman.
The Presbyterial Treasurer of Benevolence, W. E. Price,
made his report for the past year. The report was adopted
and is as follows :
REPORT OF TREASURER OF BENEVOLENCES
Financial Report of W. E. Price, Treasurer of Benevolences for
Mecklenburg Presbytery as of Date of March 31, 1928
Cause Receipts Disbursements BeJ. Cdt.
Bible Society $ 154.87 $ 154.87
Barium Spring Orphanage 2,050.11 2,050.11
Church and Manse Erection 166.50 $ 166.50
Education and Ministerial Relief 1,536.30 1,536.30
Schools and Colleges i,9i3-75 i.9i3-75
Foreign Missions 6,775.58 6,775.58
Assembly's Home Missions 3,017.24 3,017.24
Synod's Home Missions 1,548.90 1,548.90
Pres. H. Missions___$24,655.35 21,076.44 3o78-9i
Less bal. cr. last yr 2,076.20
Net receipts for year 22,579.15
Training School 203.56 203.56
Sunda}- School Extension 629.45 629.45
Near East Relief 28.00 28.00
Special emergency fund 347-36 347-36
Total $43,026.97 $39,281.56 53.745-41
Respectfully submitted,
W. E. PRICE. Treasurer.
Attest : We hereby certify that we have carefully checked the
books of W. E. Price, treasurer of Mecklenburg Presbytery, and
fmd same correct as per statement above.
J. . JAMISON. Auditor.
The Treasurer of Presbyterial Tax submitted his report
which was adopted and is as follows :
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TREASURER'S REPORT
Presbyterial Tax Fund
April 5th, Balance $ 739-95
December 6th, Refunded by S. B. Lyerly for Daily Vacation
Schools 28.52
April 7th, Received from Churches 3,656.79
$4,425.26
Disbursed
Auditor $ 25.00
Assembly's Assessment 1,246.72
Synod's Assessment 225.70
Synod's Stewardship Committee 779-31
Presbytery's Stewardship Committee 21.80
Expense of Commissions :
Sharon 67.50
Junior College i3-50
Religious Education 271.48
Postage 5.35
Printing _„ 535.88
Stated Clerk 200.00
Permanent Clerk 30.00
Treasurer 100.00
Total $3,522.24
April 7th, Balance $ 874.50
Bank Balance April 15, 1927 $ 739.95
Deposits from April 15, 1927 to April 7, 1928 3,685.31
Total $4,425.26
Checks as of page 50 $3,550.76
Balance in Bank April 7, 1928 $ 874.50
This account has been audited and found correct.
J. F. JAMISON, Auditing Committee.
April 10, 1928.
The Auditor' report attached to treasurer's report was
also adopted.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ASSESSMENTS
The report of the Committee on Assessments rendered
a report which was docketed for the fall meeting of Pres-
bytery. The report is as follows :
Your Committee would report as follows :
1st. That the Presbyterial Assessment be reduced for the year
beginning April i, 1928 from 22c per capita to 17c per capita.
2nd. In the interest of Presbyterial economy, we would recom-
mend that the minutes of the Presbytery be printed only once a
year instead of the present custom of twice a year.
Respectfully submitted,
S. B. McLEAN.
A. S. JOHNSON.
H. W. HARKEY.
Report put on docket.
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Candidates were granted transfers to other Presbyteries
as follows: Claude M. Mcintosh to Congaree Presbytery;
G. C. Crowell to Montgomery Presbytery; S. E. Howie to
East Mississippi Presbytery.
Other communications were read and received as infor-
mation or referred to the proper committees.
The resignation of W. H. Belk, as trustee of Presbytery
was accepted and the trustees asked to report at the next
adjourned meeting of Presbytery.
The commission appointed to deal with the Sugaw Creek
complaint reported, their report was received and adopted.
COMMISSION ON SUGAW CREEK CHURCH AFFAIRS
The following commission appointed by the Presbytery of Meck-
lenburg in session at St. Paul's Church, Charlotte, N. C, October 19,
1927, viz. : Rev. A. R. Shaw, D.D., Rev. C. R. Nisbet, D.D., Rev. C. H.
Rowan, Rev. R. S. Burwell, D.D., and Ruling Elders, T. J. Smith, of
First Church, Charlotte, and T. B. Spratt, of Steele Creek Church,
met at Sugaw Creek Church, October 24, 1927, at 11 a. m., for the
following purpose : "To redress any and all evils found to exist in
said church." (See minutes of Presbytery of Mecklenburg, October
19, 1927.)
Rev. A. R. Shaw was elected Moderator of the commission and
Rev. R. S. Burwell, Clerk.
After a number of preliminary meetings the Commission on
October 28, 1927, unanimously adopted the following findings and in-
structions :
1st. That the Commission assume original jurisdiction in the
Church for a period of at least six months, unless an adjustment
satisfactory to the commission is reached at an earlier date. This
action taken under provision of Revised Book of Church Order,
chapter 15, paragraph 76.
2nd. That attention be called to the fact that the above action
suspends the exercise of all official functions on the part of both
Ruling Elders and Deacons.
3rd. That Ruling Elders and Deacons and members of the
Church be enjoined to refrain from all agitation among themselves of
the differences in the Church, for the above specified time. And
that any failure to comply with this injunction will render the party
or parties liable to discipline, as provided in our Rules of Discipline
as set forth in the Book of Church Order.
4. That while the commission finds that there have been grave
mistakes and misunderstandings on both sides, the above action is
not to be interpreted as a censure of any party or parties involved.
5. That the commission summons the whole membership of the
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Church to an aggressive program of the upbuilding for the Kingdom
of God in this old historic field, calling attention to the unlimited and
constantly growing opportunities for great service in this com-
munity, especially among the young.
6th. That the commission meet at the Church on the first Sun-
day afternoon of each month at three o'clock for the transaction of
business.
7th. That the following brethren be appointed a committee to
attend to the financial affairs of the Church, receiving and disbursing
the funds under the direction of this commission, and serving until
more satisfactory adjustment is arrived at : B. J. Hunter, Ralph
Robinson, W. S. Abernethy, Frank Morrison, Wade Todd and Haw-
ley Hunter.
8. That the above action does not in any way stop the commis-
sion in its effort to harmonize the differences in the Church and to
place the work on a normal basis, or from taking any other action
which in its judgment will be for the upbuilding of the Kingdom in
the same.
REV. A. R. SHAW, D.D.
REV. R. S. BURWELL, D.D.
REV. C. R. NISBET, D.D.
REV. C. H. ROWAN.
Ruling Elders :
T. J. SMITH, First Presbyterian
Church.
T. B. SPRATT, Steele Creek
Presbyterian Church
After a number of conferences the Elders and Deacons of the
Church signed a paper in which they resolved to let by-gones be
by-gones and to live and labor harmoniously in the extension of
Christ's Kingdom.
The members of the Church then publicly acquiesced in the fore-
going resolution.
In consequence of this happy solution of the difficulties in the
Church, the commission, on February 12, 1928, restored the Elders
and Deacons to the exercise of their official functions.
The commission was given a standing- vote of thanks and
was discharged, also greetings and felicitations were sent
to Sugaw Creek Church from Presbytery.
Preceding the Presbyterial sermon Presbytery took a
five-minute recess.
The Presbyterial sermon was preached by Rev. J. F.
Ligon, pastor of Tenth Avenue Church, Charlotte, from the
texts, Rom. 14:15 and I Cor. 8:11. Subject: "The Vicarious
Atonement."
Rev. J. G. Garth presented the cause of the Presbyterian
Standard.
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The committee on Vacancy and Supply reported, the
report was adopted which is as follows :
COMMITTEE OF VACANCY AND SUPPLY
The Bureau of Vacancy and Supply is one of the most service-
able departments of our Assembly's work. This bureau, under the
direction of Rev. J. D. Leslie, D.D., Stated Clerk of the Assembly,
with his office at 1521 Kirby building, Dallas, Texas, holds itself in
readiness to be helpful to vacant churches seeking a pastor, and to
ministers who, for any reason, are seeking a change in their pas-
torates.
The service of this bureau is without cost either to church or
minister, and all correspondence is strictly confidential. Dr. Leslie
gives the assurance that no publicity will be given that is not au-
thorized by the minister registering.
Any vacant church wishing a pastor is urged to make its desire
known to this bureau, stating the conditions of the field, the salary
paid, and any other information that may be necessary. Dr. Leslie
will immediately send to the church thus registering the name of a
man who may seem to meet the needs of the field. A vacant church
need have no hesitation in availing itself of the help of this bureau,
as the usual procedure in the call of a pastor may be followed.
Presbytery's Committee of Vacancy and Supply is anxious to be
of service to the vacant churches throughout the Presbytery. We
have consistently proffered our services when vacancies have oc-
curred, to assist in securing pastors, to moderate congregational
meetings, to render any other service within our power.
That we may be more helpful this coming year we have arranged
for a definite service of temporary supply. We invite all ministers
who may be available for temporary supply work, for one or more
Sabbaths, to register with Mr. W. E. Price, 30 W. Fifth St., Char-
lotte, N. C, Phone, Hemlock 932; and the churches of the Presbytery
desiring the services of a minister may communicate with Mr. Price;
and, if possible, a minister will be supplied. It, is understood, how-
ever, that the expenses of the minister supplying the church are to
be paid, together with a fair remuneration for his services. This
committee has no funds to assume any responsibility either for ex-
penses or remuneration.
A. A. WALKER.
W. E. PRICE.
J. G. GARTH.
The report of the Committee on Evangelism was read
and, pending adoption of the recommendations, Presbytery
voted to take recess until 2 :00 p. m.
Rev. R. A. McLeod and R. G. Matheson, of Fayetteville
Presbytery were introduced and invited to sit as visiting
brethren.
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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
Presbytery re-convened at 2:00 p. m.
The following ministers and elders were elected as com-
missioners to General Assembly meeting in Atlanta, Ga.,
May 17, 1928:
Principals— Ministers : C. H. Rowan, A. S. Johnson, I. E.
Wallace, W. S. Hamiter. Alternates: Q. N. Huneycutt, A.
A. Walker, S. B. McLean, Lynn R. Walker.
Principals— Elders : S. B. McPheeters, J. W. McClung,
W. R. Long, W. E. Price. Alternates: J. A. McAiilay, T. H.
Rowan, T. E. Spratt, T. W. Stewart.
Dr. Wm, J. Martin appeared before the Presbytery in
the interest of Davidson College and the address was re-
ferred to the Committee on Schools and Colleges.
Dr. Wm. H. Frazer was heard next in the interests of
Queens College. The address was also referred to the Com-
mittee on Schools and Colleges.
The Committee on Schools and Colleges reported, and
the report was adopted :
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
Your Committee on Schools and Colleges has had before it a
communication from Rev. W. M. Hunter, chairman of Synod's Com.-
mittee on Schools and Colleges enclosing a financial statement and
also communications from President W. J. Martin, of Davidson Col-
lege, and Rev. W. W. Akers, Vice-President Board of Trustees
Queens College.
The financial statement of the Schools and College Fund reveals
the fact that of the ^$15,299.00 asked for this fund $9,274.48 or 60.6 per
cent w^as paid.
Davidson College
Davidson College reports a prosperous year with an enrollment
of 636, of whom 125 are in the Senior class. During September, 81 of
the above students declared that it was their intention to enter the
ministry and this number has been increased since. In addition to
the above nine others have declared their intention of going to the
foreign field as medical missionaries. Five hundred of the students
enrolled are Presbyterians, and all save 12 are members of some ev-
angelical church.
For the session 1928-29 an additional instructor has been placed
in the department of mathematics, and a director of physical training
will be added, not for training in intercollegiate athletics, but in or-
der that every student may receive physical training. It is contem-
plated also to add instructors in social science and fine arts.
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The last unit of Chambers building is now under construction
and will be ready for occupancy for the session 1929-30.
A pressing need at Davidson is the securing of a fund from which
to render assistance to worthy young men who cannot afford a col-
lege education, especially sons of ministers, a number of whom are
each year desirous of entering college. An annual income of $5,000.00
from such a fund could be wisely used in this way.
Young men contemplating entering Davidson College next fall
should make application at once, as all who apply cannot be enrolled,
and our own Presbyterian young men should insure their enrollment
by getting their applications in first. The list of students for the
next year is full by June 15th.
Graduation day this year will be Wednesday, May 30th, at 10:30
a. m. Dr. Frank S. Morgan, of Augusta, Ga., will preach the bac-
calaureate sermon the Sabbath preceding. On Tuesday, May 29th, at
noon Dr. Donald W. Richardson, of Nanking, China (Theological
Seminary), will deliver the annual address.
Queens College
Queens College reports a record attendance of 373 students be-
ing enrolled; 322 of these are pursuing courses leading to A. B. or
B. S. degrees reducing specials to 50.
The college expects to close the present year, as has been done
for several years, free of debt. This in spite of the fact that the ex-
pense budget has been increased by the addition of two instructors
and a vice-president. Through the work of Vice-President Jarman,
Queens has been able to give the closest attention to every detail of
the courses of study and classification of students thereby improving
the scholastic features of the institution.
The Endowment Fund now amounts to $110,000.00 with $140,000.00
uncollected subscriptions. The most critical situation confronts the
college in connection with this endowment movement for the rea-
son that the permanent accrediting of Queens as an A-Grade Col-
lege depends upon the raising of an additional $200,000.00. Letters
have been sent to every church in the three controlling Presby-
teries requesting that the president of the college or someone
designated by him be allowed to appear before the churches to
present the importance and urgency of this endowment cause.
The attention of church sessions is called to this pressing need
and they are urged to write the president opening their churches
to him for this appeal.
The financial statement reveals the heartening fact of an
estimated balance for the year of $8,987.30.
Attention is called to the continued critical illness of Rev. A.
A. McGeachy, D.D., President of the Board of Trustees, and it is
suggested that Presbytery be led in special prayer for God's bless-
ing upon our brother.
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We would submit the following recommendations :
1. That the need of Scholarship Funds at Davidson College
with which to assist worthy young men through College be called
to the attention of churches and individuals of means as a most
worthy object for their gifts.
2. That Presbyterian parents be urged to send their sons to
Davidson College, and their daughters to Queens College as offering
the type of education for which the Presbyterian Church stands,
and which we believe will safeguard their boys and girls in the future.
3. That our Church Sessions be urged to co-operate with the
President of Queens College in his effort to raise the $200,000.00 ad-
ditional endowment by inviting him to visit the churches and present
the appeal.
4. We recommend that the following Trustees whose terms of
ofifice expire with this meeting of the Presbytery be re-elected to
succeed themselves as Trustees of Davidson College : R. A. Dunn and
H. N. Pharr.
That the following Trustees whose terms of office expire with
this meeting of the Presbytery be elected to succeed themselves as
Trustees of Queens College : A. A. McGeachy, T. M. Glasgow, J. L.
Choate, P. S. Gilchrist.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES R. NISBET, Chairman.
L E. WALLACE.
B. F. YANDELL.
J. R. BRIDGES.
BEATTY FAIRES.
G. M. ROSE, JR.
Committee Schools and Colleges.
The Executive Committee of Home Missions rendered
its report together with the treasurer's report which was
referred to the Standing Committee of Home Missions.
The unfinished business of the Committee of Evangelism
was taken up. It was adopted and is as follows :
COMMITTEE ON EVANGELISM
The spirit of evangelism, both personal and congregational, is
increasing within the bounds of the Presbytery. Evangelistic meet-
ings have been held generally throughout the Presbytery, with splen-
did results. The statistics of these meetings are not available for
tabulation in this report.
Your committee has endeavored to encourage the pastors in the
Home Mission field to assume the responsibility for tlieir own meet-
ings, and to arrange for any help they might need ; and they have
responded to this request of ours with very beneficial results. Con-
sequently, your committee is submitting a smaller number of assign-
ments for meetings for the coming year, for your approval.
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Again following your instructions, we sent a form card to every
preacher in the Presbytery, asking if he would be willing to hold a
meeting under the direction of the committee, and if he wanted the
committee to make an assignment for his Church. The response to
these cards has been very gratifj'ing. Only those ministers who have
answered in the affirmative to the above request have been assigned
to meetings ; and assignments have been made only to those churches
requesting the same, and to the churches directly under the care of
the Home Mission Committee.
Two years ago this committee requested Presbytery to define its
duties and powers, in order that it might do its work with the great-
est efficiency. We again request Presbytery to give us some definite
idea as to the work you would have us do. We are of the opinion
that the ' situation might be clarified if we were instructed as to
which of the following two lines of activities you would have us
follow :
First. That its activities should be confined to the churches un-
der the care of the Home Mission Committee, and the Mission
points in Home Mission territory. In which case, we think that the
Committee on Evangelism should be a sub-committee of Presby-
tery's Home Mission Committee, and under its direction. The popu-
lar meeting usually held at the fall meeting of Presbytery in the in-
terest of evangelism would be held under the direction of the Home
Mission Committee.
Second. That the committee should function through the whole
Presbytery, fostering evangelism in all the churches. In this case
assignments for meetings would be made, as heretofore, only in
churches requesting such service; but all evangelistic meetings, in all
the churches should be reported to the committee in order that a
complete report might be made to Presbytery.
If this committee is retained as an independent committee, some
arrangements be made to defray its expenses, which would be very
small, consisting of the printing and mailing of return cards, report
blanks, etc.
We recommend :
1. That Presbytery request all our people within its bounds to
pray much for God's blessing upon the work in which we are en-
gaged.
2. That this committee function through the whole Presbytery,
fostering evangelism in all the churches; the assignments for meet-
ings to be made, except in the Home Mission field, only upon request.
3. That the churches in which meetings are held pay the ex-
penses of the preachers holding the meetings.
4. That the churches where meetings are held be instructed to
report to the chairman of this committee : (a) the date set for the
meeting as early as practicable after the arrangements have been
completed; and (b) that immediately after the close of the meetings
they report to the chairman of the committee in the following items :
Name of preacher conducting the meeting; date; number of days
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meeting continues ; number of professions of faith ; number of ac-
cessions by profession; and number of accessions by letter.
5. That the expenses of the committee be paid by the treasurer
of the Presbytery from the funds obtained by the Presbyterial tax.
6. That at the fall meeting of Presbytery an hour be devoted to
the study and discussion of evangelism under the direction of the
Committee on Evangelism.
7. That the following assignments for meetings to be held dur-
ing the year be approved:
Assignments for Meetings
Troy, B. F. Yandell ; Wadeville, P. W. Wilson; Star, A. A. Walk-
er,; Pageland, W. T. Smith; Beulah, W. C. Underwood; Salem, S. B.
Lyerly; Robinson, J. M. Walker; Peachland, S. B. Lyerly; Polkton,
A. A. Walker ; Roberdel, A. S. Anderson ; Brainard, C. H. Rowan ;
Cameronian, W. H. Matheson ; Ellerbe, J. W. Stork; Mt. Carmel,
C. G. Long; Norman, S. B. McLean; Candor, W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr.;
North Charlotte, J. W. Stork ; Unionville, W. T. Smith ; Bethlehem,
A. A. Walker; Midland, W. H. Johnston; Marks Creek, J. M. Walk-
er; Marston, A. A. Walker; McLean Memorial, J. W. Stork; Rourks
Chapel, W. T. Smith ; Waxhaw, C. W. Somerville ; Six Mile Creek,
A. A. Walker; Midway, W. T. Smith.
A. A. WALKER, Chairman.
The Clerk of Presbytery was ordered to forward the
Presbyterial assessment to the Clerk of the General As-
sembly amounting to $1,198.39.
The report of the Committee on Calls and Supplies was
read and adopted which is as follows :
COMMITTEE ON CALLS AND SUPPLIES
Your committee submits the following report :
Six communications have been received.
1. A call from the Mulberry Church for the pastoral services of
Rev. J. C. Grier.
2. A request from the session of Hopewell Church that Dr. C. W.
Somerville be continued as stated supply until the fall meeting of
Presbytery.
3. A request from the session of Mallard Creek that Dr. W. H.
Frazer be continued as stated supply until the fall meeting of Pres-
bytery.
4. A request from the session of Newell Church that Rev. M. E.
Peabody be continued as stated supply until the fall meeting of
Presbytery.
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5. A request was received from the Wilmore Church asking that
the terms of their call to the pastor, Rev. S. B, McLean, authorizing
him to occupy the recently completed manse and that the church be
permitted to change the terms of the call and add $1,400 per annum to
the salary now paid to him.
6. Amity Church requested permission to change the terms of
the call to its pastor so as to increase the salary from $2,000 to $2,100.
Your committee recommends that these requests be granted.
Respectfully submitted,
W. H. MATHESON.
L. W. JARMAN.
A. F. DOTY.
H. M. NICHOLSON.
REPORT ON FOREIGN MISSIONS
The Foreign Missions Committee submitted its report
which was received and ordered that the summary as cor-
rected be printed which is :
Financial
With profound gratitude to God we report that in answer to
church-wide prayer the receipts have gone above $1,600,000 paying in
full the 3'ear"s regular expenses and also the extra China evacuation
expense, obviating the necessit}- of the cut, and reducing the out-
standing debt.
Reduction of Expense
During the year the committee has continued its rigid adherence
to the policy of reducing the missionary force by sending out mis-
sionaries only for absolutely necessary- replacement, or to meet
emergenc}' needs where missionary life or health is at stake, in order
eventualh' to bring income and outgo into harmonj- without serious
injury to the w^ork. On April i, 1926, our missionaries numbered 516;
on April i, 1927, 499; on April i, 1928, 484. Ever^' effort will be made
during the ensuing year to reduce still further the annual expense of
the work.
Recommendations
1. That Presbyter}' engage in a special service of thanksgiving
to God for the prevention of the greatest disaster that ever threat-
ened our Foreign Mission work, playing especialh- that the spirit of
suppHcation and sacrifice that wrought this great deliverance may
suffer no reaction or decline but growing stronger with each succeed-
ing year may lift our Church to an ever higher standard of conse-
cration to that cause which lies so near our Saviour's heart and
formed the burden of his last command.
2. That churches, societies, and individuals assume, wherever
practicable, definite responsibility for definite parts of the Foreign
Mission work.
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3. That a "Church School of Missions," using the approved For-
eign Mission study book, "The Desire of All Nations," be organized
in every church during the Foreign Mission month of January, 1929.
4. That pastors be urged, especially in churches where it is not
practicable to hold a "School of Missions," to emphasize this year
the spiritual side of the Foreign Mission enterprise using "The De-
sire of All Nations" for prayer meeting discussions during January,
1929.
5. That Sunday Schools focus attention this year on our evan-
gelistic work abroad and designate their Foreign Mission contribu-
tions to the $100,000 being raised in the Sunday Schools for this work,
it being understood that such offerings will be credited on the local
church's Foreign Mission apportionment.
6. That Young People's Societies apply their Foreign Mission
offerings to the $10,000.00 being raised for the medical work in China
this year and that everywhere possible they present this work to their
young people.
7. That ministers utiHze to the utmost the Foreign Mission pro-
grams, literature, sermon illustrations, stereopticon slides, and visits
of missionaries, all to be had on request from the Foreign Mission
office, in order that missions may be given its scriptural part in the
life of all our churches.
EDGAR G. GAMMON.
The unfinished matter of the Historical Foundation was
taken up and after discussion, the matter was referred to
the Presbytery's Historical Committee, and docketed for the
fall meeting of Presbytery.
Rev. J. C. Grier, having accepted the call extended to him
by Mulberry Church, at his request the following commis-
sion was appointed to install him :
COMMISSION TO INSTALL J. C. GRIER
The following commission was appointed to install J. C. Grier as
pastor of Mulberry Church : Rev. J. W. Grier to preside, preach and
propound the constitutional questions; Rev. L. W. Brown to charge
the congregation and Rev. C. C. Beam to charge the pastor. Rev.
J. M. Walker alternate to any of the above. Elder J. M. Bigham as
lay member. Time, Sunday evening, April 22, 1928, at 8 o'clock.
The report of the Committee on the Mi-nutes of Presby-
tery was adopted and is as follows :
COMMITTEE ON MINUTES OF PRESBYTERY
The Committee on the Printed Minutes of the Presbytery re-
port that they find them correct and neatly kept and recommend
their approval.
W. C. UNDERWOOD, Chairman.
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The invitation of the Candor Church for the fall meet-
ing was accepted.
The second Tuesday after Synod at 11 :(X) a. m., was set
as the time for the fall meeting.
Dr. C. R. Nisbet was appointed to preach the Presbyte-
rial sermon at the fall meeting of Presbytery on a subject
to be announced later.
The report of the Committee on Sabbath Observance
and Family Religion was read and adopted as follows :
COMMITTEE ON THE SABBATH AND FAMILY RELIGION
The place and the importance of the Christian Sabbath as one
of the great institutions of the Church and the State is still secure in
the estimation of right thinking people throughout the world. It is
probably not generally known that the republic of France now has
a Sunday law demanding one day's rest in seven for all who labor
and requiring the individual to use the day so secured for him in
actual rest.
It seems probable that the Cranford bill giving the District of
Columbia a Sabbath rest law will be passed at this session of Con-
gress. This bill is sponsored by the Lord's Day Alliance and is only
one of their many services in the interest of the Sabbath. The
Family Altar League is working successfully in the matter of estab-
lishing family altars.
For the Committee,
R. J. McILWAINE, Chairman.
The Committee on Christian Education and Ministerial
Relief reported, which report was adopted as follows :
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AND MINISTERIAL RELIEF
Your Committee on Christian Education and Ministerial Relief
begs leave to make the following report :
We have on our roll 27 candidates for the ministry most of
whom are in school doing satisfactory work. We also have three
ladies preparing for mission work.
Your chairman has written repeatedly to Jack Hand and Guj-
Weeks during the past year, but has not been able to hear from
either of them.
During the year ending March 31st Mecklenburg Presbytery
forwarded to our Committee at Louisville $12,713.84; while our can-
didates, students, and beneficiaries of ministerial relief received from
that committee $8,394.00.
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In 1925, for the first time in 20 years our Central Committee
carried over a debt amounting to $32,629.00; in 1926, $29,875.00; in
1927, $36,527.00; this year $48,286.00.
Following the direction of the General Assembly the Committee
has ordered the following reductions : 10 per cent on amounts sent
to homes of aged and infirm ministers; reduction of $25.00 in
amounts promised candidates, making the maximum $125.00; 10 per
cent cut in work among Presbyterian students at universities ; a 10
per cent reduction in salary of the Executive Secretary, and any
other possible reduction that can be made in office expenses.
The following recommendations are offered :
1. That candidate Claude Mcintosh be dismissed to Congaree
Presbytery, G. C. Crowell to Montgomery Presbytery, S. E. Howie
to East Mississippi Presbytery, and M. C. Yeargin to Fort Worth
Presbytery.
2. That the Central Committee at Louisville be requested to
make the following appropriations :
Mrs. Mary T. Arrowood $300.00
Mrs. Allie W. Cochran 504.00
Mrs. Emma T. Harding 540.00
Mrs. Louise R. Dickey 300.00
Rev. L. H. Query 420.00
Rev. A. H. Temple 530.oo
Rev. W. C. Underwood 530.oo
J. W. GRIER, Chairman.
Presbyterly then took recess to reconvene at 8:00 p. m.
WEDNESDAY EVENING
Presbytery then took recess to reconvene at 8 :00 p. m.
Rev. W. H. Johnston presented the report of the Per-
manent Committee of Home Missions.
Rev. F. M. Shamburger, pastor of the Mt. Gilead Meth-
odist Church and Rev. M. C. EUerbe, of the Mt. Gilead
Circuit M. E. Church were introduced and invited to sit as
visiting brethren.
Pending the adoption of the report Rev. I. E. Wallace,
D.D., Rev. A. L. McDuffie, Rev. W. C. Copeland, Chairman
J. M. Wallace, and Superintendent A. A. Walker addressed
Presbytery. The recommendations of the committee to-
gether with the report were adopted and is as follows :
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REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF HOME
MISSIONS OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY FOR
THE YEAR ENDING MARCH 31, 1928
In submitting this our annual report, your committee, in the very
beginning, would record its deep gratitude to Almighty God for His
manifest blessings upon the work during the past year. His favor has
been over us, and His arms round about us. We would also express our
genuine delight with, and our sincere appreciation of, the ever-increasing
interest in, and support of our Home Mission work as manifested by
churches, societies, Sunday Schools, and individuals. It is this increased
interest that brings joy to your committee, and gives them heart in the
work.
This is our day in Home Mission work. Throughout the bounds of
the Presbytery they are calling for us. Never before in the history of
the Church has there been such a widespread demand for us to come in
and possess the land ; and much of this land is virgin territory, too. It
is waiting for us to come in. Certainly this is God's challenge to us "to
come to the help of the Lord against the mighty." Our response to this
appeal is bound to determine the future of our Church in all this territory.
The aggressive home mission church is the growing church. Retrench,
and we die. These home mission churches are not only seed-beds for our
larger town and city churches, but in many cases they develop into strong
churches themselves. In fact, statistics show that a vast majority of the
self-supporting churches today began in just this way — first as a home
mission church. A good many of them are destined by circumstances,
over which they have no control, to remain for years as home mission
churches ; and some of them probably will never become self-supporting,
though they should constantly strive for it. But if they do not, what of
it? It can be easily shown that these churches furnish ministers and
church leaders far out of proportion to their membership or wealth in
the community. Besides, they are the great moulding and uplifting in-
fluences in all these sections. These are some of the things that make
the work committed to your committee so interesting and worthwhile;
and we are persuaded that this is what appeals to you. We are limited
in this great work only by the lack of funds with which to do it. We
rejoice to know that the churches are getting hold of this truth also, and
as a consequence we are enabled to report this year the largest contribu-
tion to this cause in the history of the Church. We are back here, dealing
with the fountain of our Church's life, and we must see to it that it is
kept pure and running at any cost.
I. The Work
A brief review of the work of the past year will show a number of
encouraging things. For one thing, it will reveal that the work is in a
much better condition at this time than it was at the same time last year.
Another thing will be evident, and that is the men on the fields have been
doing some mighty fine work. And again, instead of being afflicted with
a number of misfits in the work, through the faithful efforts of our
efficient superintendent we are apparently finding the right men for the
work in charge, and this gives us the most encouragement, and the
brightest hope, as we look forward to the new year, for after all it is the
man who usually makes the field or breaks it.
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1. First, then, our field. We now have 49 churches and 3 mission
points under our care. These are grouped into 19 separate pastoral
charges. One new church was organized during the year, Tabernacle at
Euto in the northern part of Union County. This church grew out of
the faithful labors of Rev. C E. White, of Marshville, who has been
supplying at this point for some time.
Your committee, to which was referred by the Presbytery the matter
of the advisability of transferring Pageland and Beulah to Pee Dee Pres-
bytery of South Carolina, after thorough investigation through a sub-
committee, and a conference with officials of that Presbytery, and of the
churches concerned, came to the conclusion that it was not practical to
do so, and so those churches are left in the group as they were before.
Waxhaw and Six Mile Creek are asking to be taken under our care at
this meeting of Presbytery.
This then is our field of labor, but there are many other points that
need to be worked up by our Church. Especially is this true in many of
the mill settlements where we are now doing little, and in the new de-
veloping sections of the Presbytery.
Our force. These 49 churches are being regularly supplied with men
either as settled pastors or stated supply, with the exception of three
fields : Roberdel, Brainard and Cameronian ; Pageland, Beulah and Salem ;
Bethlehem, Unionville and Midland. The first and last named groups are
now seeking men, while Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine is temporarily supplying
the Pageland, Beulah and Salem group. Most of the other churches
under the care of the committee are being served by men who have long
been in their respective fields of labor, and several of them are fast
bringing their churches up to the point where they will be self-supporting.
Their work is so well known that it need not be mentioned in just this
connection; only to say this, it is from churches which have pastors of
this kind that we get our best returns from the expenditure.
We have had a number of new men to come into the Presbytery's
Home Mission field this year, all of whom are doing most excellent work :
A. L. McDuffie at Candor, Biscoe and Macedonia ; T. H. Mitchell at
Indian Trail and Siler ; A. F. Doty at North Charlotte ; and W. C.
Copeland at Troy, Wadeville and Star. In addition to these, the follow-
ing young men, who did student supply work last summer, will be back
with us this summer : W. G. Thomas, a senior at Union Seminary,
Richmond, Va., at Ellerbe, Mt. Carmel and Norman. He has accepted
a call to these churches, and will begin upon his pastorate there upon
graduation ; M. B. Prince, a middler at Columbia Seminary, at Peach-
land and Polkton ; J. S. McFall, also a middler at Columbia, at Morven,
Lilesville and Camden. The committee also has promised to assist the
churches of Mt. Gilead and Norwood in securing for the summer T. F.
Wallace, a student at Columbia, to assist their pastor, J. W. Stork, in his
large fields of labor.
On the whole, it can be said without hesitation, we never had such a
fine body of ministers in the Home Mission work before. They are
doing yeoman service and it is telling. Last year they received into the
Church on profession of faith 99 and by letter 131, making a total of 230
added to the Church from the mission fields.
3. The Building Program. During the year much has been done in
the way of erecting new church buildings and manses by the Home Mis-
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sion churches. The new church at Euto has secured a five-acre tract of
land near the consolidated high school building upon which they have
begun the erection of a brick church building to cost about $6,000.
Bethlehem is planning to build a new brick church out on the new
highway No. 150 running from Concord to Monroe. Both the brick for
this church and that for the Tabernacle church at Euto were given by the
Belk Bros. Speaking of the Belk Bros., we would pause here in the
report, and once again record our appreciation for the many handsome
gifts which have been given by these two brothers to this work. They
have ever been the friends of Home Missions in this Presbytery, and in
the State. In the going of Dr. John M. Belk, the Church, and especially
the Home Mission Committee, has lost a most valuable friend. We re-
joice to know, however, that he has made arrangements with his brother,
Mr. W. H. Belk, to carry on the good work just as if he were present in
the flesh. We wish to express to each member of the family our sym-
pathy in the hour of their great sorrow.
Our church at Lilesville was burned to the ground during the winter.
No insurance was carried on the building. Since then they have been
worshipping in the Methodist Church. Just now they are putting on a
campaign to raise $5,000 with which to rebuild a brick structure. This
church needs your help. They are weak financially.
Marks Creek is planning to remodel their church building, add Sun-
day School rooms to it. and turn the church around so as to make it face
the new highway passing by it.
Marston and the other churches in this group plan to buy a six-acre
tract of land upon which is a six-room dwelling to be used for the manse.
This property is near the Marston Church, and most suitable for that use.
McLean Memorial and Rourk's Chapel, the remaining two churches
in this group, have on their building program, McLean to build out and
out, while Rourk's Chapel plans to purchase the school building in which
they have been worshipping and remodel that for their church.
Brainard, in the Roberdel, Brainard and Cameronian group around
Rockingham, has expended $1,800 this year in remodeling their church,
adding four new Sunday School rooms, new floors over all, and exten-
sively modifying the front and making it more attractive. They still owe
$500 on this work, and they are looking to us for help.
Norman has completed her new church but she is struggling along
with a building and loan debt of $1,900. We have helped them some, but
they need our help further,
A handsome new manse has been built at Candor under the direction
of their pastor. Rev. A. L. McDuffie, at an estimated cost oi $5,000: It
has six rooms in it and is well located in the town. The Candor Church,
with some assistance from the other churches in this group, is financing
this project without calling upon the committee for help.
Troy Church, since the arrival of their new pastor, W. C. Cope-
land, has revived its interest in building their new church; and they are
just now seeking to find some way by which they can finance the under-
taking and bring it to completion. It is the sincere hope of your commit-
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tee that this church will have been completed before the time arrives for
another year's report. It has been hanging fire all too long already.
Star has appointed a committee to secure a lot upon which they may
build in the near future. It will require our help at this place.
The manse at Robinson has been completed at an estimated cost of
$3,500. When the church receives the $500 promised them by Synod's
Committee then the debt on the building will be about removed.
Wilmore has completed her church building, and has also built a new
manse during the year, the total cost of both buildings, including lots, was
$26,450. Of this amount the church cost $19,300, and the manse $7,150.
The work on both these buildings was largely done by members of this
congregation, and it is estimated that this resulted in a saving to the con-
gregation of $9,350.00. Both these building projects are being financed
by the congregation with some little help from your committee.
The Waxhaw Church is in need of a new church building and they
now have plans on foot to erect a building which they estimate will cost
them $30,000. It is a rather high ideal they have set before them, and it
is just possible they will have to go about reaching it by piece-meal.
It is evident from such a building program as that which is going
on throughout the Presbytery your committee has many requests for aid
that it cannot grant, not because we do not think they are worthy, but
simply because we do not have the funds in hand. The committee antici-
pates that it will be called upon during the coming year to aid in building
churches and manses to the total amount of not less than $7,500.00. At
once, you see some of these requests will have to be declined unless we
are provided with a building fund. It would be a glorious thing if some
one would place at the disposal of this committee a church and manse
fund adequate to meet the needs of these pressing calls. We commend
this to your liberality.
II. The Finances
Total receipts for the year from the churches amounted to $22,026.63,
as compared to $18,664.76 for the same period the year before. Total
receipts from all sources, including balance of last year, amounted to
$24,655.35, as against $20,858.54 for the year before.
Total expenditures for the year amounted to $21,076.44, as compared
to $18,782.14 the previous year, leaving a balance on hand at the beginning
of this church year of $3,578.91.
In addition to this we have received about $4,288.00 from the Synod's
Home Mission Committee which has gone into the support of the regular
work of the Presbytery.
The balance in hand will all be required to tide us over the first few
lean months of the year. Last year we began with a small balance in
hand, and for the first time in the history of the work, so far as your
present committee is concerned, we did not have to borrow a single dollar.
Our policy is to get out of debt and stay out of debt if possible, and not
at the same time turn a deaf ear to the numerous cries that come from the
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fields for help. Six years ago, 1922, we began the year $15,000 in debt.
Today we are free of all debt with a balance on hand, notwithstanding
our annual budget has increased in that time by $10,000.
III. Policies
We restate some of the established policies of the committee by way
of emphasis. They have been approved by the Presbytery, and have been
proven to be wise by experience.
1. It is the policy of the committee to reduce all appropriations to
the fields each year 10 per cent. This is done not that the men on the
field shall receive less salary, but that the churches served shall make up
this difference and more, each year, and that this may serve as a stimulus
to the churches to become self-supporting ; and at the same time it re-
leases funds to be used in developing other needy fields, and in the opening
up of new work.
2. The committee will expect every pastor engaged in Home Mission
work to live on the field he serves.
3. The committee will expect all applications for aid in building
churches and manses to be made in writing. Such applications must show
cost of building contemplated, and the amount of money already raised
for the same. The committee must formally pass upon all applications
before they can be held as binding for appropriations. Further, churches
expecting to receive aid from the Home Mission Committee in building
either church or manse are requested to confer with the committee in re-
gard to the site, the style of building, and the plans for financing the
same, before they actually begin operations.
4. The committee will expect all churches and manses to be properly
insured, and care be taken to see that this insurance is kept up.
5. Churches receiving aid from the Home Mission Committee are
expected to pay in full their apportionment to Presbytery's Home
Missions.
IV. Recommendations
We offer the following recommendations :
1. That Rev. A. A. Walker be re-elected Superintendent of Pres-
bytery's Home Missions.
2. That Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine be re-elected Evangelist of Union and
Anson Counties.
3. That Presbytery grant the following supplies : A. S. Anderson,
Baden and Palestine ; T. F. Hunnycutt, Stanfield ; C. E. White, Taber-
nacle and Waxhaw ; Frank Grier, of Bethel Presbytery, S. C, Six Mile
Creek; J. A. Mclntyre, layman, Mark's Creek, Marston, McLean Me-
morial and Rourk's Chapel ; Student supplies : M. B. Prince, Peachland
and Polkton ; J. S. McFall, Morven, Lilesville and Camden ; W. G.
Thomas, EUerbe, Mt. Carmel and Norman; T. F. Wallace, assistant
through the summer at Mt. Gilead and Norwood.
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4. That a conference for the workers (and their wives) on the
Home Mission field be held at some time in the spring at the expense of
the committee. Such conference to be arranged for by the committee at
such time and place as they think best.
5. In view of the pressing needs of the work, and especially because
of the great building era which we are now upon, and the many demands
made upon the committee for this special form of assistance, Presbytery
urges each church, when it is at all possible to pay in full its apportion-
ment to Presbytery's Home Missions, namely, 15 per cent of the total
budget.
6. That Presbytery approve the following appropriations for the
year 1928-29:
Superintendent's Salary $ 3,000.00
Indian Trail and Siler , 800.00
Troy, Wadeville and Star 1,050.00
Ellerbe, Mt. Carmel and Norman 600.00
Oakboro, Locust, Stanfield and Morgan Memorial 700.00
Pageland, Beulah and Salem 1,000.00
Plaza 300.00
Union and Anson County Evangelist 600.00
Robinson and Allen 625.00
Cornelius and Bethel 300.00
Marshville and Tabernacle 200.00
Peachland and Polkton 900.00
Wilmore 320.00
Roberdel, Brainard and Cameronian 600.00
Walkersville, Rehoboth, Bethany and Altan 440.00
Candor, Biscoe and Macedonia , 700.00
North Charlotte 400.00
Unionville, Bethlehem and Midland 1,200.00
Mark's Creek, Marston, McLean Memorial and Rourk's Chapel 1,200.00
Morven, Lilesville and Camden 900.00
Waxhaw and Six Mile Creek 200.00
Expenses of Superintendent 1,000.00
Incidental Expenses 500.00
Mt. Gilead and Norwood 300.00
Contingent Fund for New Work 1,000.00
Church Building Contingent Fund 3,000.00
Training School Workers 300.00
Total Appropriations $22,135.00
J. M. WALKER, Chairman.
NOTE — The Treasurer's report, properly audited, is hereby attached.
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REPORT OF W. E. PRICE, TREASURER OF MECKLENBURG
PRESBYTERY HOME MISSION COMMITTEE FOR
YEAR ENDING MARCH 31, 1928
Receipts
Balance forwarded March 31, 1927 $ 2,076.20
Received from Churches 22,026.63
Dividends Commercial National Bank 24.00
Received from Synod's Committee 500.00
Returned by S. B. Lyerly 28.52
$24,655.35
Disbursements
Paid to Workers to April 1, 1928 $13,558.73
M. & F. Bank for Certificate 2,000.00
Norman Church Building 493.26
Wilmore Church Building 1,000.00
Mt. Gilead Church Building 1,000.00
Plaza Church Building 625.00
Ellerbe Church Building 1,203.11
Spillman's Salary 282.69
S. B. Lyerly Training School 300.00
Printing 6.00
Superintendent's Special Expense 35.75
Auto Account 514.00
General Expense Account 21.30
Travelling Expense Members of Committee 36.60
Balance on hand 3,578.91
$24,655.35
Liabilities
None
Assets
Note Statesville Avenue $ 650.00
Two Shares Stock Commercial National Bank 450.00
Dodge Sedan 750.00
Certificate Dp. M. & F. Bank 2,000.00
$3,850.00
Church and Manse Erection Fund
Balance, 1927 $ 56.00
Received to April, 1928 110.50
Total on hand $ 166.50
Respectfully submitted,
W. E. PRICE.
Audited and found correct.
J. F. JAMISON, Auditor.
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REPORT ON HOME MISSIONS
Your Standing Committee on Home Missions beg leave to submit
the following report :
We have examined the report of the Executive Committee on
Home Missions and rejoice at the excellent show^ing made. We com-
mend the faithful and efficient work of Superintendent and Com-
mittee.
We note especially the reference of the Executive Committee to
the fine work of the Belk brothers for Home Missions in this Pres-
bytery, and heartily concur with the Committee in their expression
of appreciation ; and add to theirs our own expression of sympathy
for all those bereaved by the death of Dr. Jno. M. Belk.
We note with pleasure the success of the Committee in securing
men so eminently fitted for the work of the Home Mission fields, and
we would most heartily commend the fine spirit of the men who
through a long term of years have been giving themselves to this
form of work.
The unusual amount of building and improvement of churches
and manses is especially heartening. The congregations and groups
doing this fine work are to be commended; but we would also com-
mend the Committee and the Superintendent of Home Missions for
the inspiration they have given to the fields and the men on the
fields.
We would especially commend the business ability of the Com-
mittee in clearing off the old debt, and enlarging the work without
borrowing money.
1. We recommend the approval of the Executive Committee's
report with the adoption of their recommendations as to appro-
priations and the re-election of the efficient Superintendent, A. A.
Walker.
2. We recommended the re-election of the Executive Commit-
tee of Home Missions.
Respectfully submitted,
W. H. JOHNSTON.
A. S. ANDERSON.
C. W. WALTON.
The Committee on Men's and Women's Societies sub-
mitted its report which was received and adopted by a ris-
ing vote, in which Presbytery extended a vote of thanks to
the women. The report is as follows :
MEN'S AND WOMEN'S SOCIETIES
Your Committee on Men's and Women's Societies would make
the following report :
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The Woman's Auxiliary of Mecklenburg Presbytery is to be con-
gratulated for having succeeded in getting all the Women's organi-
zations except two to become members of the Presbyterial.
There are now sixty-six Auxiliaries in the Presbyterial and all
but five sent in their reports.
These reports show a most successful year, making a record in
material offerings, showing an increase of three thousand nine hun-
dred and seventy-four dollars over last year. This is especially
gratifying considering that last year's report showed a splendid in-
crease of more than eleven thousand dollars over the preceding year.
The spiritual objectives have been diligently fostered and have
developed in a marked degree. Eighty-two Bible classes have en-
rolled one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six members. One hun-
dred and sixty-five prayer bands, one thousand nine hundred and
thirty-nine members. Home and Foreign Mission study classes,
two thousand seven hundred and thirty-one members. Family al-
tars, five hundred and sixty-four. Tithers, eight hundred and forty-
eight.
Doubtless the faithfulness of the Auxiliaries in meeting for
prayer, for the study of the Bible and Missions is the explanation of
the large sums contributed to the causes of the Church, which we
would here record.
Denominational Benevolences
Foreign Missions :
(a) To the Nashville office $16,368.00
(b) Birthday gift Kwangu Girls' School 2,079.00
Assembly's Home Missions 4,158.00
Christian Education and Ministerial Relief 2,117.0a
Publication and Sunday School Work 574-00
Assembly's Training School 732.00
Bible Cause 291.00
Synod's Home Missions 2,105.00
Orphans' Homes 6,062.00
Educational Institutions 2,645.00
Presbytery's Home Missions 3,158.00
Total —L. $45,510.00
Local and Miscellaneous Work $26,420.00
Making a grand total of all contributions $71,930.00
Upon such a record not only should the Woman's Auxiliary be
congratulated but Presbytery should be deeply grateful for such a
force in developing the spiritual life of our churches and in augment-
ing its resources for promoting the Kingdom of our Lord in the
earth.
The second part of our report has to do with men's societies.
There have been placed in our hands fourteen reports of men's
organizations other than Bible classes of the Sunday School. Six
of these organizations are "Men of the Church" and are organized
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wholly or in part according to the Assembly's plan. Six are Men's
Clubs, for the promotion of fellowship, personal work, holding evan-
gelistic services and the securing of funds for the work of the Church.
The two organizations of the First Presbyterian Church of Char-
lotte are called, "The Men's Foreign Mission Society" and "The Men's
Fellowship Club." The men's organization of the Presbytery have
enrolled 793 members.
These organizations contributed to Foreign Missions $10,870.00;
Presbytery's Home Missions $3,381.00; Orphans' Home $295.00; Con-
gregational Expenses $2,992.00. The Myers Park Club has sub-
scribed $50,000.00 to the Building Fund of their proposed new
church. We feel that we should call special attention to the splen-
did gift of $6,345.00 to Foreign Missions by the "Men's Foreign Mis-
sion Society" and "Fellowship Club" of the First Presbyterian
Church, of Charlotte.
Respectfully submitted,
LYNN R. WALKER, Chairman.
W. C. UNDERWOOD, Committee.
The Stewardship Committee submitted the following re-
port which was received and adopted, and is as follows :
STEWARDSHIP COMMITTEE
The Secretary of Stewardship for the Presbytery makes the fol-
lowing report :
The total amount apportioned to this Presbytery for Benevo-
lences for the year beginning April i, 1928, by the Synod of North
Carolina at its stated session in 1927 at Concord (see page 721 of the
Minutes of the Synod for said session) was $197,997, which appor-
tionment was accepted and adopted by the Presbytery at its stated
session in the fall of 1927 (see page 10 and 11 minutes of said ses-
sion). The amounts or quotas apportioned to the various churches
of the Presbytery were upon a per capita basis, as appears from the
Report of the Stewardship Committee to the stated fall session of
Presbytery, which was approved and adopted by the Presbytery as
amended and as appears in the minutes, the apportionments or
"Askings" varying in amount from $50.00 to $1.00 per member in dif-
ferent churches, according to the appraised ability of the member-
ship. These "Askings" were accepted with very few exceptions.
March 11, 1928, having been designated by the Presbytery as the
approved date for the Every Alember Canvass for subscriptions for
the ensuing year, as recommended by the Assembly, the Secretary of
Stewardship requested the various churches of the Presbytery to
make reports to him as soon thereafter as practicable as to the sub-
scriptions received, both for Benevolences and for Current Expenses,
in order that a complete report from all the churches might be tab-
ulated and furnished to the Assembly's Secretary of Stewardship and
to the Synod's Secretary likewise and also to the Presbytery, and
printed cards were furnished for this purpose. Up to April 10, 1928,
the day of the convening of the Presbytery, only 25 of the 93
churches of the Presbytery had made any report to the Secretary
of Stewardship, and some of them were incomplete, making it dif-
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ficult for the Secretary to prepare and submit to the Presbytery a
satisfactory report. During the session of the Presbytery, the Sec-
retary of Stewardship has obtained from the Statistical Reports to
Presbytery, and from such other information as was obtainable from
the churches, facts and figures which are included in the tabulated
statement hereto attached and made a part of this report, giving the
names of the individual churches, with the amounts of the Benev-
olent "Askings" from each, the number of subscriptions for Benev-
olences from each Church, the amount subscribed by each Church
for Current Expenses and the number of subscriptions for Current
Expenses from each Church, with the totals of these several items
from all the churches, so far as they could be gotten.
The summary is as follows :
Total number of subscriptions to Benevolences 5,245
Total amount subscribed to Benevolences $146,019.00
Total number of subscriptions to Current Expenses 6,112
Total amount subscribed to Current Expenses $195,697.00
Total amount subscribed to Benevolences and Cur. Exp.__$34i,7i6.oo
Amount short of Benevolent Quota $ 45,978.00
Thirty-seven churches have made no report of their Every Mem-
ber Canvass either to the Presbyterial Secretary of Stewardship di-
rectly or to the Presbytery.
At the stated session of the Presbytery in the fall of 1927, ex-
penditures to the extent of $100.00 were authorized on the part of
the Secretary of Stewardship for actual expenses. Of this allow-
ance, the sum of $21.80 was used, of which $4.50 was paid for station-
ery, postage and telegram, and $17.30 was paid to the Presbyterian
Standard for printing and publishing. By the generosity of Messrs.
Belk Brothers a statement giving certain facts and figures and call-
ing attention to the need for Presbyterians to pay up past subscrip-
tions and make new ones was published in the Charlotte Observer
without cost to the Presbytery, shortly before the Every Member
Canvass day. (By the inadvertance of someone, this notice appeared
in the Sunday issue of the paper, although the Secretary of Steward-
ship had especially requested that it be not published in the Sunday
edition).
There seemed to be no demand for Stewardship Conferences in
the Presbytery this year preceding the canvass and none were held.
Such conferences may be of much benefit when there is real inter-
est in them and co-operation but not otherwise.
The following recommendations are submitted:
* I. That this Presbytery overture the Assembly to direct, through
its Committee on Assembly's Work, that the Assembly's Secretary
of Stewardship discontinue the practice of calling for and trying to
secure from the various churches throughout the Assembly, through
the Presbyterial Secretaries of Stewardship, or the Synodical Secre-
tary, special reports upon the Every Member Canvass in the churches
prior to the regular spring sessions of the Presbyteries, for the rea-
sons that such effort is impracticable, considering the bjief time
elapsing between the making of the Every Member Canvass and the
sessions of the Presbyteries, it is unpopular with the churches and is
largely ignored by them, it is unnecessary and results in duplication
of reports, and serves no good purpose at last, as the information
42
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
CURRENT
EXPENSES
No.
Sub.
Amt.
Sub.
210
$ 8,290
60
265
75
67
2,500
1,788
30
700
30
146
250
986
necessary for the Assembly's Stewardship office is available from
the Statistical Reports of the Presbyteries to the Assembly and when
secured from that source will serve desired ends as well as if it
were obtained otherwise.
2. That the Home Mission Committee, through its Superinten-
dent of Home Mission churches, actively promote the cause of
Stewardship in the Home Mission churches, to the end that a larger
number of them may more fully realize their privilege and respon-
sibility of contributing to the Benevolent causes of the Church.
Respectfully submitted,
S. B. McLEAN,
Presbyterial Secretary of Stewardship.
BENEVOLENCES
Total No. Amt.
Askings Sub. Sub.
I— Albemarle $ 1,890 108 $ 1,829
2— Allen 25
3— Altan 60 60 60
4— Amity 448 75 685
5— Badin 378 536
6— Banks 544 45 4i5
7— Bethany 35 30 30
8 — Bethel 474 120 321
9— Bethlehem 160
10 — Beulah 56
II — Biscoe 105
12 — Brainard 154
13 — Caldwell Memorial 11,250 515 10,205
14 — Camden 20
15 — Cameronian 132
16 — Candor 158
17 — Carmel (dissolved) 376
18 — Central Steele Creek 1,020 80 969
19 — Charlotte First 52,500 46,670
20 — Charlotte Second 60,060 1,051 31,107
21 — Cook's Memorial 615 70 460
2,2. — Cornelius 284 42 no
23 — Ellerbe 80 29 92
24 — Hamlet 1,632 143 1,121
25 — Hopewell 924 500
2(i — Huntersville 1,860
■27 — Indian Trail 120 11 43
28 — Lee Park 72
29 — Lilesville 22
30 — Locust no
31 — Macedonia 220
32 — Mallard Creek 1,232
ZZ — Mark's Creek 316
34 — Marshville 282 42 135
35— Marston 78
36 — Matthews 202
Zl — McGee 768 600
38 — McLean Memorial 32 4 5
39 — Midland 45
40— Monroe First 5,i75 3,45o
571
26
42
10
11,141
80
1,241
31,035
066
36,740
71
600
51
786
29
940
143
5,548
150
1,500
133
1,300
1,400
97
5,000
20
351
22
386
19
57
46
170
30
1,800
8q
603
125
2,000
10,348
13,148
91
683
91
698
41
1,088
I
25
30
1,000
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41 — Morgan Memorial 57
42 — Morven 570
43— Mt. Carmel 152
44— Mt. Gilead 321
45 — Mulberry 600
46 — Myers Park 6,375
47 — Newell 660
48 — Norman 66
49 — North Charlotte no
50 — Norwood 609
51 — Oakboro 24
52 — Pageland 100
53 — Palestine 10
54— Paw Creek 1,944 1,663 2,458
55 — Peachland 56
56 — Pee Dee 145
57— Plaza 459
58— Philadelphia 1,768
59 — Pineville 840
60— Pleasant Hill 436
61 — Polkton 96
62 — Porter 30
63 — Providence 884
64 — Ramah 500
65— Rehoboth 46
66— Roberdel 148
67 — Robinson 465
68 — Rockingham 600
69 — Rourk's Chapel 32
70 — Salem 60
71 — Seversville 870
72 — Sharon 2,200
TZ — Siler 200
74 — Six Mile Creek 74
75 — Stevenson 80
'Jt — Stanfield 46
77 — Star 22
7^ — Steele Creek 6,840
79— St. Paul's 1,505
80 — Sugaw Creek 3,270
81 — Tenth Avenue 5,240
82 — Thomasboro 260
83 — Troy 123
84 — Turner 90
85 — Unionville 126
86— Wadesboro 888
87— Wadeville 48
88 — Walkersville 202
89 — Waxhaw 598
90 — West Avenue 2,064
91 — Westminster 8,805
92 — WilHam's Memorial 1,184
93 — Wilmoore 249
94 — Tabernacle (New Church)
13
no
13
248
4|?
3,200
122
1,268
254
2,579
65
700
80
800
90
510
105
585
300
50
850
40
40
400
40 .
175
12
30
28
\\2
51
726
68
1,985
208
1,920
158
3,500
55
140
55
489
7
67
7
153
485
7,374
485
5,065
99
1,463
150
4,188
181
1,862
181
2,069
235
4,000
257
8,000
32
260
32
1,564
27
164
27
564
50
350
18
344
64
2,123
48
150
100
50
100
460
221
1,715
221
9,151
323
7,425
346
9,835
no
1,184
125
2,315
107
339
125
2,315
24
229
$197,061 5,245 $146,019 6.1 12 $195,697
44 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
Rev. L. W. Brown was appointed to conduct the Devo-
tions at the opening of Presbytery Thursday morning. Dr.
L. Wilson Jarman was asked to conduct the high school
devotions on Thursday morning.
Presbytery then adjourned to meet at 9:00 a. m., Thurs-
day.
THURSDAY MORNING
Presbytery reconvened at 9 :00 a. m., and was led in a
devotional exercise by Rev. L. W. Brown.
The minutes of Wednesday's sessions were read and
approved.
Dr. E. E. Gillespie, Superintendent of Synodical Home
Missions, was introduced and invited to sit as a visiting
brother and later addressed Presbytery.
Rev. W. S. Hamiter offered his resignation as pastor of
the Pineville and Banks Churches due to failing health, and
the churches regretfully and reluctantly concurring, Presby-
tery voted to dissolve this pastoral relation and he was
given the privilege of laboring outside the bounds of Pres-
bytery until the fall meeting.
The Judicial Committee rendered the following report
which was adopted :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON JUDICIAL BUSINESS
Your Committee would respectfully report that no matters of a
judicial nature have been referred to this committee.
Respectfully submitted,
C H. ROWAN, Chairman.
The nominating Committee submitted the following re-
port which was adopted :
COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS
For trustees of the Presbytery, in place of W. H. Belk, Hunter
Marshall.
Committee on Evangelism: A. A. Walker, chairman; W. B. Mc-
Ilwaine, Jr., W. E. Price.
Committee on Religious Education — Young People's Division :
P. W. Wilson, M. E. Peabody, F. H. Bierman.
Sunday School Extension : J. G. Garth, H. J. Spencer.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 45
Leadership Training: B. F. Yandell, G. M. Beaty, Dr. R. H.
Lafferty.
Respectfully submitted.
The Committee on Thanks submitted the following re-
report which was adopted by a rising vote :
RESOLUTION OF THANKS
The Presbytery of Mecklenburg in session at its stated spring
meeting at Mt. Gilead Church in April, 1928, humbly and gratefully
acknowledges the continued and renewed tokens of the guidance of
the Holy Spirit in its work during the past year, as evidenced in
particular by the various reports brought in indicating distinct ad-
vance in many phases of the Master's work.
The Presbytery desires most heartily to thank the pastor and
people of the Mt. Gilead Church for their most hospitable entertain-
ment of the members of Presbytery; for the commodious provision
made for the work of the Presbytery in their splendid new building;
and for the generous, hospitable and comfortable provisions made for
the entertainment and refreshment of the members of the Presbytery
in the homes of the people ; and also for the special dinner and sup-
per provided by the ladies of the church.
The Presbytery also desires to express its appreciation for the
musical features provided in some of the sessions; for the special
provisions made for the convenience of Presbytery's work in the
clerical machines generally put at its disposal by the Richter and
Meyers Company and by the McRae Store; and also, for the gen-
erous and able services of Miss Grace McRae and of Miss Kate Stin-
son in operating these machines.
It is the prayer of the members of this Presbytery that the Holy
Spirit will continue to bless and enlarge the spiritual growth and
witness of the pastor and people of the Mt. Gilead Church ; and it is
their particular desire and request that a copy of this report be read
to this congregation.
T. H. MITCHELL, Chairman.
The Committee on Synod's Minutes submitted the fol-
lowing report which was adopted :
COMMITTEE ON SYNOD'S MINUTES
To the Presbytery of Mecklenburg:
Your Committee on Synod's Minutes have found nothing special
to call to Presbytery's attention.
Respectfully submitted,
T. M. STRIPLING, Chairman.
The Committee on Sessional records reported, their re-
port was adopted as follows :
Your Committee on Sessional Records submits the following re-
port :
46 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
I. Session books of the following churches were approved
w^ithout exception : Amity, Banks, Bethel, Beulah, Caldwell Memo-
rial, Candor, Central Steele Creek, Charlotte First, Charlotte Second,
Cook's Memorial, Cornelius, Hamlet, Hopewell, Huntersville, Indian
Trail, Lee Park, Macedonia, McLean Memorial, Mallard Creek,
Mark's Creek Marshville, Marston, Monroe First, Mt. Carmel, Mt.
Gilead, Matthews, Mulberry, North Charlotte, Norwood, Paw Creek,
Pee Dee, Plaza, Pineville, Pleasant Hill, Polkton, Providence, Ra-
mah, Rockingham, Seversville, Sharon, Steele Creek, St. Paul, Su-
gaw Creek, Tenth Avenue, Troy, Turner, Walkersville, West Avenue,
Westminster, Williams Memorial.
II. Session books of the following churches were approved with
exceptions as noted :
1. Not opened and closed with prayer : Sharon, Rourk's Chapel,
Myers Park.
2. Failure to hold at least one meeting in a quarter : Morven,
Biscoe, Wadeville, Altan, Norman, Rehoboth, Bethany, McGee, Eller-
bee, Robinson.
3. Clerk's signature to minutes missing: Newell.
4. No name on back of book : Albemarle, Siler, Philadelphia.
5. Approval of minutes not completely recorded: Rehoboth,
Thomasboro, Albemarle.
6. Place of meeting not always recorded : Morven, McGee,
Wadesboro, Thomasboro.
7. Very incomplete minutes of some meetings : Badin, Wades-
boro.
III. The Committee would make these recommendations :
1. That sessions observe closer care in having all minutes ap-
proved and record of such approval duly made before submission to
Presbytery.
2. That sessional minutes record due authorization for each
meeting held; that is, whether as a stated meeting, adjourned meet-
ing, or called meeting.
Respectfully submitted,
W. T. SMITH.
The Committee of Religious Education, with its sub-
committees on Young People's Work, Sabbath Schools, and
Leadership Training, submitted its report which was taken
up severally and were adopted as amended and is as follows :
THE REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S SOCIETIES
Your committee will respectfully submit the following report, of
the 93 churches listed that your committee has received reports from
o"ly 54, of these 54 eleven report no young people's organization,
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 47
whatsoever. While two others report an organized work being car-
ried on only among the Juniors.
There are in the Presbytery seventy organizations including
Junior societies with a membership of 2,305 by whom contributions
totaling $2,502 are reported to have been made to all causes. Only
one or two of the reports indicate a flourishing condition in the
young people's work, your committee deplores this fact and would
urge upon the ministers and the sessions of all the churches the im-
portance of this department of the church's work. We feel that one
of the reasons for the condition that now exists is the lack of per-
sonal interest on the part of the pastors and members of the session.
The reports also indicate a division among the young people's soci-
eties from the standpoint of form of organization, some of our
stronger churches are conducting their young people work in one
way while others are continuing the Christian Endeavor organiza-
tion. Your committee feels that were it possible to have a single form
of organization for the young people's work of all our churches a
greater work could be accomplished, we would therefore submit the
following recommendations :
1. That the pastors and sessions be urged to organize in their
church some form of young people's work, if there is no organiza-
tion at the present time and to give to this organization the support
of their personal interest and guidance.
2. That an ad interim committee be appointed to study the mat-
ter of the young people's work, looking to the promotion of a single
form of organization, which committee shall report its finding and
recommendations to the first adjourned meeting of Presbytery or as
soon thereafter as possible.
Sabbath School
Of the ^72 Sabbath Schools from which reports have come, we
have reported a total Sabbath School enrollment of 14,219, an in-
crease over last year of 1,266.
They report total contributions of $33,951. We note that only
five of the schools reporting are conducting teacher training classes.
The importance of religious education is so great that special efforts
should be made to furnish trained teachers where this is possible.
There are reported 309 additions to our church from the Sunday
School.
Your committee submits the following recommendations :
1. That all established schools be urged to conduct a teacher
training class.
2. That the Presbytery urge upon the churches that a definite
part of the regular contributions of the Sabbath School be set apart
and applied to the regular benevolent causes of the church.
3. That the regular offering in all church schools on one desig-
nated Sunday in each month be given to Barium Springs Orphan-
age.
48 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
Leadership Training
Your committee following the precedent established last year has
employed four students from the Assembly's Training School to as-
sist in the conducting of daily vacation Bible schools in the Presby-
tery over a twelve weeks' period. Letters have been mailed to each
Church stating the conditions upon which these ladies may be
secured by them. These conditions are as follows :
1. That the two ladies shall be furnished with entertainment by
the Church.
2. That their expenses from their last engagement to their new
field be defrayed by the Church.
3. That a free-will offering be received on the closing day of
the school for the benefit of the committee's work.
It is possible for us to conduct twelve schools during the sum-
mer. We have received applications for seven, leaving room for five
more engagements of two weeks each. Applications should be made
to Rev. S. B. Lyerly, of Charlotte, N. C, at once, if your Church
wishes the assistance of the workers.
P. W. WILSON,
For the Committee.
STATISTICAL REPORT OF YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK
No. Senior Christian Endeavor Societies 35; Membership 1,296
No. Intermediate Societies 11; Membership 256
No. Junior Societies 18; Membership 506
No. Boys' Groups 3; Membership 92
No. Girls' Groups i ; Membership 20
No. Other Forms 3; Membership 135
70 2,305
Contributions
To Denominational Benevolences:
As Foreign Missions " $ 456
As Home Missions 15
Christian Education and Ministerial Relief 52
Publication and Sabbath School 30
Orphans 145
Educational Institutions 23
Presbytery's Home Missions 32
Total Denominational Benevolences $ 753
To Local Church Work $1,268
Miscellaneous Collections 53i
Grand Total All Contributions $2,552
The Bills and Overtures Committee reported that noth-
ing had come into its hands and the committee was dis-
charged.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 49
The Stated Clerk submitted an incompleted statistical
report which was received and adopted with the understand-
ing that the Clerk have the privilege of completing this re-
port as soon as possible and forwarding to the Assembly.
An Ad Interim Committee on Young People's Work was
appointed as follows :
P. W. Wilson, Chairman ; W. B. S. Chandler, S. B. McPheeters,
C R. Nisbet, A. S. Johnson, S. B. McLean, J. M. Walker, W. E.
Price, J. G. Garth.
Elder D. D. McKinnon, the veteran elder of the Wade-
ville Church was introduced to Presbytery and was honored
by Presbytery's rising to receive him.
The privileges of the floor were extended to Dr. E. E.
Gillespie, Superintendent of Synod's Home Missions, also
Secretary of Synod's Stewardship and Miss Katie B. Prid-
gen, Superintendent of the Albemarle Normal and Industrial
Institute.
In connection with Miss Pridgen's address, the matter
of the Albemarle Normal and Industrial Institute was refer-
red to the Permanent Committee on Schools and Colleges,
with instruction to report at the fall meeting of Presby-
tery. Dr. L. Wilson Jarman was added as a member of this
Committee on Schools and Colleges.
The Trustees of the Albemarle Normal and Industrial
Institute were ordered to meet in the Presbyterian Church
in Albemarle, N. C, at 10:00 a. m., April 23, 1928.
An adjourned meeting of Presbytery was set for 2 :00
p. m., April 30th in the First Presbyterian Church of Char-
lotte, N. C.
The report of the Committee on Leave of Absence sub-
mitted the following report which was adopted :
REPORT OF LEAVE OF ABSENCE COMMITTEE
Rev, G. C. Huntington, M. E. Sentell, J. A. McQueen, and J. A.
Callagan be excused from attendance upon this meeting.
Revs. J. R. Bridges, A. R. Shaw, B. F. Yandell, J. F. Ligon, C. R.
Nesbit, E. G. Gammon, Q. N. Huneycutt, T. F. Huneycutt, and C, H.
Rowan ; elders W. R. Wearn, Jno. A. McRae, D. R. McCord, N. A.
Martin, L. R. Lisk, W. L. Allen. E. W. McGee, N. C. White, and N.
J. Phillips be excused after Wednesday night.
50 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
The matter of the revised Directory of worship was
docketed for the adjourned meeting of Presbytery.
The Presbytery then adjourned with prayer by the Mod-
erator.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
C. G. LONG, Temporary Clerk.
Presbytery met in adjourned session on April 30, 1928,
at First Presbyterian Church, Charlotte.
MONDAY AFTERNOON
2 :00 o'clock.
Presbytery was called to order by the Moderator, Rev.
J. G. Garth, and a quorum being found present, Presbytery
was led in prayer by Rev. T. M. Stribling.
Ministers: Rev. J. G. Garth, Moderator; T. M. Strib-
ling, J. R. Bridges, J. F. Ligon, S. B. Lyerly, J. C. Grier, T.
H. Mitchell, L. W. Brown, W. H. Matheson, C. R. Nisbet,
E. G. Gammon, A. A. Walker, W. T. Smith, Q. N. Huneycutt,
W. B. S. Chandler, P. W. Wilson, J. M. Walker, R. W. Cul-
bertson, S. B. McLean, B. F. Yandell, W. B. Mcllwaine, C.
E. White, W. H. Johnston, A. S. Johnson, C. H. Little, R. S.
Burwell, G. C. Huntington, C. G. Long, A. F. Doty, J.'C. Mc-
Geehee, I. E. Wallace.
Elders: J. L. Campbell, Philadelphia; S. B. McPheeters,
Caldwell Memorial ; W. R. Long, Sugaw Creek ; J. A. Mc-
Intyre, Ellerbe ; J. O. Stancil, Amity; E. V. Kearns, Hope-
well ; H. W. Harkey, Westminster ; W. L. Allen, Tenth Ave-
nue ; W. W. Davenport, Steele Creek ; J. W. McClung, First
Church, Charlotte; A. W. McCoy, Marston ; W. A. Rogers,
Pineville ; W. R. Wearn, Charlotte Second.
Rev. B. B. Shankel was dismissed to Concord Presby-
tery.
The matter of the Revised Directory of Worship was
taken up, discussed, and changes approved.
Dr. Geo. F. Robertson, of Holston Presbytery, was in-
troduced and invited to sit as a visiting brother.
A matter dealing with certain books distributed by the
Presbyterian Committee of Publication was brought to the
attention of Presbytery by Dr. A. S. Johnson at the request
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 51
of the Presbyterian Ministers' Association of Mecklenburg
County, and an ad interim committee was appointed by
Presbytery to study the matter and report back to Presby-
tery. The committee consisted of Revs. C. H. Rowan, Jno.
M. Walker, C R. Nisbet, Elders W. E. Price and S. B. Mc-
Pheeters.
The Committee on Assembly's Home Missions submitted
its report which was received, and the following recom-
mendations were adopted :
1. That the Sunday Schools be urged to study Home Missions
as a part of the Church's great missionary responsibility, and Sun-
day, June 24th, be observed as Home Mission Day with an offering
for this cause.
2. That the Young People's Societies be urged to use the As-
sembly's Home Mission programs, and that their Home Mission of-
ferings be applied to the Blue Ridge Academy, The Hollow, Va.,
which school the General Assembly has assigned them as their spe-
cial Home Mission responsibility.
3. That November be designated as the time for Home Mission
study and preaching, and that all churches, Auxiliaries, Societies and
Sunday Schools be urged to observe the Annual Week of Prayer for
Home Missions, November 11-18, with free-will offerings for As-
sembly's Home Missions.
4. That all churches, auxiliaries and societies be urged to recog-
nize the distinctive work and claims of Assembly's Home Missions,
and that this cause be given its proper share of the benevolent con-
tributions.
Respectfully submitted,
J. F. LIGON, Chairman.
Rev. H. L. Hoffman, a Methodist minister from Virginia,
was introduced and invited to sit as a visiting brother.
The Ad Interim Committee on Young People's Work
submitted a report and after discussion, the report was
withdrawn and the committee was continued.
An overture to the General Assembly touching proposed
union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Presbyte-
rian Church in the United States w^as introduced by Dr. A. S.
Johnson, which was adopted :
OVERTURE TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The Presbytery of Mecklenburg respectfully overtures the Gen-
eral Assembly to meet in Atlanta, Ga., May 17th, as follows :
That inasmuch as there are vital differences in practices and tra-
52 MINUTES OF MFXKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
ditions as well as creed between the Presbyterian Church, U. S., and
the United Presbyterian Church, and
Inasmuch as there are geographical differences and wide dis-
tances between the communions of these two bodies (20 Presbyteries
of the United Presbyterian Church being between the Mississippi
River and the Pacific Ocean) it would be impractical to meet to-
gether because of this distance;
Inasmuch as to submit this to the Presbyteries while there is no
desire on either side for union would provoke a harmful and useless
discussion ;
The Presbytery of Mecklenburg asks the Assembly to express
its thanks to the Committee on Union for its labors and discharge it
from further agitation so that the Church may be free to prosecute
its work until such a time as the Spirit of God seems to direct to-
wards a union of these kindred bodies.
Respectfully submitted.
A report of the Board of Trustees of the Albemarle Nor-
mal and Industrial Institute was received and referred to
the Standing Committee on Schools and Colleges, the com-,
mittee being ordered to report to the next adjourned meet-
ing of Presbytery if possible.
The commission appointed to install Rev. J. C. Grier as
pastor of Mulberry Church made the following report :
COMMISSION TO INSTALL REV. X C. GRIER
The commission appointed to install Rev. J. C. Grier as pastor
at Mulberry met at the church Sunday, April 22nd, 8 p. m. Rev.
John W. Grier presided, preached, and propounded the constitutional
questions ; Rev. J. M. Walker charged the pastor. Rev. L. W. Brown
the people. Closed with prayer.
An additional report of the Committee on Sessional
Records was adopted and ordered incorporated as a part of
the minutes of the spring meeting of Presbytery.
Mr. J. A. Mclntyre, an elder of the Ellerbe Church, and a
candidate for the ministry, who had been supplying a group
of churches in Richmond County, applied to Presbytery for
licensure but after discussion Presbytery advised Mr. Mc-
lntyre to try to take a course in a theological seminary and
then come to Presbytery for licensure.
An adjourned meeting was set for the first Monday in
July at 2 :00 p. m., in the First Presbyterian Church.
After the reading of the minutes, Presbytery was led in
prayer by Dr. Geo. F. Rol)ertson and adjourned.
C. G. LONG, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
STATISTICAL
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14. Men's Work— P. S. Gilchrist, C P. Brown, H. J. Spencer, J. M.
Oldham, J. P. Marsh, M. E. Trotter, J. M. Harris.
15. Sessional Records— W. T. Smith, R. S. Burwell, Q. N Huneycutt,
and five elders
16. Examinations:
(i) Experimental Piety — The Moderator.
(2) Academic Studies — R. W. Culbertson.
(3) Languages — Latin Thesis and Greek Exegesis — C. W. Somer-
ville, J. W. Grier.
(4) Natural and Exact Sciences — H. E. Gurney, C. H. Little.
(5) Mental and Moral Philosophy, Logic and Rhetoric — W. H.
Frazer, W. B. S. Chandler.
(6) Theology — A. S. Johnson, A. A. McGeachy, C. H. Rowan.
(7) Church History— J. M. Walker, W. H. Matheson.
(8) Church Government and Sacraments — M. E. Peabody, R. S.
Burwell.
TRUSTEES OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
1. Davidson — R. A. Dunn, H. N. Pharr — Terms expire 1928; A. A.
McGeachy, J. P. Matheson, W. H. Belk — Terms expire 1930.
2. Queens— A. A. McGeachy, T. M. Glasgow, J. L. Choate, P. S.
Gilchrist — Terms expire 1928; J. Arthur Henderson, E. E. Jones,
A. J. Crowell — Terms expire 1929; E. A. McCausland, J. W. Mc-
Clung, Hunter Marshall — Terms expire 1930.
3. Albemarle — M. J. Harris, A. C. Huneycutt. A. E. McCausland —
Terms expire 1928; R. J. Mcllwain, F. S. Neal, W. H. Belk—
terms expire 1929 : J .M. Harry, J. W. Stork, J. H. McCrae, J. M.
Morrow, Mrs. W. E. Milton, Lynn R. Walker — Terms expire 1930.
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.MINUTES
of
MECKLENBURG
PRESBYTERY
\^
118th STATED SESSION
Candor, N. C.
October 23, 24, 1928
ADJOURNED MEETINGS
At First Church, Charlotte, N. C.
July 2, 1928~-July 16, 1928---September 3, 1928
CALLED MEETING
Maxton, N. C.
October 9, 10, 1928
DIRECTORY
Rev. S. B. Lyerly, Moderator. Charlotte, N. C.
Rev. J. G. Garth, Stated Clerk Charlotte, N. C.
Rev. J. W. Stork, Permanent Clerk Mt. Gilead, N. C
Trustees of Presbytery — H. C. Alexander, Hunter Marshall, Jr., J. L.
Choate.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Presbytery's Home Missions — J. M. Walker, C. G. Long, W. B. S.
Chandler, C. H. Rowan, Lynn R." Walker, C. H. Little, F. S.
Neal, W. H. Belk, T. J. Smith, C. P. Brown, W. E. Price, Dr. R.
H. Lafferty.
PERMANENT COMMITTEES
1. Foreign Missions — E. G. Gammon, C. G. Long, W. L. WalH?,
J. Arthur Henderson, M. B. Spier.
2. Assembly's Home Missions— E. A. Dillard, C. H. Little, A. S.
Anderson, Jno, B. Ross.
3. Christian Education and Ministerial Relief — J. W. Grier, W. H.
Matheson, J. W. McClung, J. M. Oldham.
4. Religious Education — General Chairman : S. B. Lyerly.
(i) Children's Division: W. M. Wilcox, W. E. Price.
(2) Young People's Division : P. W. Wilson, M. E. Peabody, F,
H. Bierman.
(3) Sunday School Extension : J. G. Garth, H. J. Spencer.
(4) Leadership Training : B. F. Yandell, G. M. Beaty, Dr. R, H.
Lafferty.
5. Bible Cause— S. B. Lyerly, J. W. Stork, Dr. H. Q. Alexander.
6. Synod's Home Missions— L E. Wallace. A. L. McDuffie. C. H.
Caldwell, D. S. Monteith.
7. Orphans' Home— W. H. Johnston, R. W. Culbertson, Wm.
Anderson, W. A. Jamison.
8. Schools and Colleges— C. R. Nisbet, I. E. Wallace, B. F. Yandell.
J. R. Bridges, Beatty Faires, G. M. Rose, Jr.
9. Sabbath and Family Religion — R. J. Mcllwain, W. S. Hamiter,
Thos. Spratt, Wm. Ross.
10. Evangelism— A. A. Walker, C. E. White, T. G. Hardie.
11. Men's and Women's Societies— L. R. Walker, W. C. Underwood,
J. R. Irwin.
12. Auditing— J. F. Jamison, J. O. Thomas.
13. Stewardship — S. B. McLean, Chairman and Secretary of Stew-
ardship; W. H. Frazer, W. H. Johnston, E. A. Dillard, E. G.
Gammon, Frank Matthews, W. E. Neil, R. A. Grier.
(Continued on back inside cover)
<J)(CINUTES
of
MECKLENBURG
PRESBYTERY
118th STATED SESSION
Candor, N. C.
October 23, 24, 1928
ADJOURNED MEETINGS
At First Church, Charlotte, N. C.
July 2, 1928~-July 16, 1928''-September 3, 1928
CALLED MEETING
Maxton, N. C.
October 9, 10, 1928
PRESS OF
PRESBYTERIAN STANDARD
PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLOTTE, N, C.
ADJOURNED MEETING
Mecklenburg Presbytery met July 2, at 2 p. m., in the
First Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, N. C. The Moderator
Rev. J. G. Garth, presided. Presbytery was opened with
prayer. The following were present :
Ministers: W. B. Mcllwaine, T. F. Huneycutt, Q. N.
Huneycutt, A. A. Walker, W. H. Matheson, T. H. Mitchell,
S. B. McLean, C. W. Somerville, M. E. Peabody, J. C. Mc-
Geehee, W. C. Underwood, R. W. Culbertson, S. B. Lyerly,
C R. Nisbet, B. F. Yandell, J. F. Ligon, W. H. Johnston, A.
R. Shaw, J. A. Caligan, C. H. Little.
Elders: W. W. Davenport, Steele Creek; S. B. Mc-
Pheeters, Caldwell Memorial, M. A. Galloway, Plaza
Church; A. W. Mills, Oakboro ; W. R. Wearn, Second
Church, Charlotte ; F. B. Kuykendall, Wadesboro ; Dr. R. D.
Ross, W. L. Allen, Tenth Avenue, Charlotte.
Dr. S. B. McPheeters was chosen temporary clerk. Pres-
bytery authorized the payment of a bill of $65.00, out of the
Presbyterial tax fund, presented by W. E. Price, and in-
curred for the purchase of a special ledger used in connec-
tion with the office of treasurer of Presbytery.
Presbytery ordered that candidate L M. Ellis be trans-
ferred to Montgomery Presbytery. Rev. T. R. Alexander,
of Potomac Presbytery was introduced and invited to sit as
a visiting brother. Rev. T. F. Huneycutt requested that the
pastoral relations between himself and Oakboro and Lo-
cust churches be dissolved in order that he might concen-
trate his energies, impaired by ill health, on the work at
Morgan Memorial Church ; and, with the concurrence of
the churches involved, Presbytery ordered the dissolution
of the relation with the expression of the hope that the ill
health which occasioned this request may be speedily re-
paired. Presbytery voted to stand adjourned to meet July
16th, at 12 o'clock.
Presbytery next proceeded to the examination of can-
didate W. G. Thomas, a graduate of Union Theological
Seminary, as a candidate for licensure. A committee, con-
sisting of Dr. C. W. Sommerville, Dr. W. B. Mcllwaine, and
W. H. Johnston, was appointed to examine the popular lec-
ture, The Thesis (on Justification), and the Exegesis of
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
Psalm 51. The recommendation of the committee that this
part of the examination be sustained was adopted by the
Presbytery.
The A. B. degree of Davidson College was accepted in
lieu of an examination in academic studies. In lieu of an
examination in the original languages of the Holy Scrip-
tures and church history, the Presbytery accepted the B. D.
degree granted the candidate by Union Theological Sem-
inary. The Presbytery directed the moderator to conduct
the examination as to personal piety, and, after hearing the
candidate's answers, sustained this part of his trial.
Dr. A. R. Shaw was designated to conduct the examina-
tion, in theology, which was sustained by Presbytery.
Rev. M. E. Peabody conducted the examination in the
Sacraments and Church Government, which was sustained
by Presbytery.
Dr. W. B. Mcllwaine was asked to conduct the examina-
tion in the English Bible, which was sustained by Presby-
tery.
The Presbytery next engaged in worship and the preach-
ing of a sermon by the candidate. Upon its conclusion. Pres-
bytery sustained the examination as a whole. The Pres-
bytery being satisfied by his trial omitted his licensure and
appointed a commission to have charge of all matters con-
nected with the ordination and installation of Mr. Thomas
at Ellerbe, Norman, and Mt. Carmel Presbyterian churches
on July 15, 1928.
The commission consisted of Revs. A. A. Walker, T. M.
Stribling, Lynn R. Walker, J. G. Garth, and ruling elders
W. E. Price and J. H. McRae.
The calls which the candidate received from Ellerbe,
Norman, and Mt. Carmel churches were referred back to
those churches for correction as to amount of time in each
church with instructions that the calls be returned to the
commission in time for the ordination.
Mr. James H. Caligan was received as a candidate for
the ministry upon presentation to the Presbytery of the
testimony of his session as to his Christian character and
after the examinations as to piety and motives for seeking
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 5
the ministry were answered satisfactorily. Dr. C. R. Nisbet
charged the candidate.
After reading the minutes, Presbytery adjourned with
prayer to meet at First Church, Charlotte, N. C, July 16,
1928, at 12 o'clock noon.
S. B. McPHEETERS, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
ADJOURNED MEETING
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in adjourned session in
the First Presbyterian Church of Charlotte at 12 m., Mon-
day, July 16, 1928. Presbytery was convened with prayer
by Rev. J. F. Ligon.
The following were found to be present :
Ministers: C. W. Sommerville, S. B. Lyerly, A. S. John-
son, J. W. Grier, R. W. Culbertson, B. F. Yandell, P. W.
Wilson, G. C. Huntington, W. H. Matheson, W. H. John-
ston, A. A. Walker, E. G. Gammon, L. R. Walker, J. F.
Ligon, T. F. Huneycutt, J. C. Grier, Q. N. Huneycutt, C H.
Little, J. M. Walker, A. F. doty.
Elders: W. R. Wearn, Charlotte Second; W. L. Wallis,
Tenth Ave.; W. R. Long, Sugaw Creek; S. W. Smith, Mor-
gan Memorial; W. W. Davenport, Steele Creek; Dr. H. Q.
Alexander, Providence.
The commission appointed to ordain and install candi-
date W. G. Thomas at EUerbe, Mt. Carmel and Norman
churches reported action as follows :
ORDINATION OF W. G. THOMAS
The commission to ordain and install candidates W. G. Thomas
at Ellerbe, Mt. Carmel and Norman group met at Ellerbe July 15th.
The commission was called to order by Rev. A. A. Walker, chairman,
opened with prayer. Rev. J. G. Garth was chosen as secretary. There
were present, A. A. Walker, T. M. Stribhng, and J. G. Garth, min-
isters, and W. E. Price and J. H. McRae, elders. Rev. Lynn R.
Walker was present at the services at Mt. Carmel and Norman,
while T. M. Stribling and J. G. Garth were absent from the service
at Norman.
The calls were corrected as to time and found in order and
accepted by Mr. Thomas.
At the ordination service at 11 a. m. at Ellerbe, Rev, J. G. Garth
preached the sermon. Rev. T. M. Stribling charged the pastor and
W. E. Price charged the people, after the candidate had been or-
dained by laying on of hands, and the prayer by Rev. A. A. Walker,
who had charge and presided over the exercises.
At Mt. Carmel, at 3 :30 p. m., A. A. Walker presided, T. M. Strib-
ling preached the sermon, Lynn R. Walker charged the pastor, and
W. E. Price the people. Mr. Thomas was duly installed pastor at
Mt. Carmel.
At 8 p. m. at Norman Mr. Thomas was again installed, Dr. Lynn
i
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
R. Walker preaching the sermon, Rev. A. A. Walker charging the
pastor and W. E. Price the people.
The services closed with the benediction by the new pastor.
A. A. WALKER, Chairman. '
In regard to quorums of commissions Presbytery voted
that for ordination and all judicial cases, a strict quorum of
Presbytery be required, in other cases the quorum may be
less.
A petition was presented for the organization of a new
church at Midway, near Rockingham. Presbytery granted
the request to organize this church : Rev. A. A. Walker,
chairman, T. M. Stribling, Lynn R. Walker, and W. G.
Thomas, ministers, and J. H. McRae, F. L. Pickett, H. T.
Baldwin, K. M. Mclnnis, elders.
The Committee on Religious Education, the department
of Leadership Training, asked Presbytery for an increased
appropriation of $100.00 for use in Vacation Bible School
Work. The request was granted provided the treasury be
in condition to make this appropriation.
Rev. J. F. Ligon requested that the pastoral relation-
ship existing between him and the Tenth Avenue Church be
dissolved to take effect July 31. Mr. W. L. Wallis was
heard representing the Church and he presented a paper
containing resolutions from the Church concurring in the re-
quest. Many remarks of the highest and most compliment-
ary nature were made by various members of Presbytery,
after which Presbytery dissolved the pastorate.
Rev. J. F. Ligon was granted a letter of dismission to
Columbia Presbytery, in order that he might accept the call
of the First Presbyterian Church of Columbia, Tenn.
Rev. A. S. Johnson reported attendance upon the ses-
sions of the General Assembly, which report was accepted.
An adjourned meeting of Presbytery was set for Sep-
tember 3rd at 2 :00 p. m., in the First Presbyterian Church of
Charlotte.
Preceding the motion to adjourn Dr. A. S. Johnson, led
the Presbytery in prayer. Presbytery then adjourned.
C. G. LONG, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
ADJOURNED MEETING
Charlotte, First Church, Sept. 3, 1928.
Presbytery was called to order at 2 :(X) o'clock by the
Moderator Rev. J. G. Garth, and opened with prayer by Rev.
Rev. H. E. Gurney, D.D. The following were present :
ROLL
Ministers: J. W. Grier, H. E. Gurney, A. S. Johnson, G.
C. Huntington, A. F. Doty, C. C. Beam, C. H. Rowan, S. B.
Lyerly, C R. Nisbet, L. W. Brown, P. W. Wilson, B. F.
Yandell, J. G. Garth, W. H. Johnston, W. H. Matheson, J. C.
Grier, T. H. Mitchell, W. B. Mcllwaine.
Elders: L. S. Boyd, Tenth Avenue ; W. R. Wearn, Char-
lotte Second ; W. A. Rogers, Pineville.
Mr. Harry Alexander Gilbert of the Ramah Presbyterian
Church made application to be taken under care of Presby-
tery as a candidate for the ministry.
Credentials from the session of his church were pre-
sented and the usual examinations conducted.
The examinations and credentials were accepted as satis-
factory, and Mr. Gilbert was received as a candiate for the
ministry.
Charge to the candidate delivered b}^ Rev. P. W. Wilson.
Tenth Avenue Church through its representative re-
quested permission to prosecute a call for Rev. E. A. Dil-
lard of Enoree Presbytery. Permission was granted.
H. E. Gurney asked that the pastoral relation between
himself and the Matthews and Providence churches be dis-
solved. The churches concurred in the request, and Pres-
bytery ordered the dissolution effective October 1, 1928.
Rev. C. H. Rowan, Rev. C. R. Nisbet, and Elder W. E.
Price were named a committee to consider the amendments
to the Book of Church Order sent down by General Assem-
bly, and to formulate a report to the fall meeting of Pres-
bytery.
Rev. J. W. Grier as chairman of the Committee on Chris-
tian Education and Ministerial Relief was authorized to in-
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 9
vestigate the request of Candidate Knox to be allowed to
drop his R. O. T. C. work at Davidson College, and then to
use his own judgment about granting the request.
The minutes were read and approved.
Presbytery closed with prayer by Rev. W. B. Mcllwaine.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
W. H. JOHNSTON, Temporary Clerk.
I
10 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
CALLED MEETING
At Maxton, N. C.
Mecklenburg Presbytery met at the Presbyterian Junior
College for Men at Maxton, N. C, October 9, 1928, by order
of Synod.
Presbytery opened with prayer by the Moderator, Rev.
J. G. Garth. The following were present :
Ministers: J. R. Bridges, D.D., J. W. Grier, C. E. White,
J. G. Garth, J. W. Stork, J. M. Walker, W. T. Smith, Lynn
R. Walker, D.D., S. B. McLean, C. W. Sommerville, D.D.,
C. H. Rowan, B. F. Yandell, P. W. Wilson, E. G. Gammon,
D.D., C. R. Nisbet, D.D., A. F. Doty, T. H. Mitchell, W. G.
Thomas.
Elders: J. V. Pomeroy, Charlotte Second; W. H. Belk.
Monroe First; A. M. Gray, Tenth Avenue; B. R. McCord,
West Avenue ; N. J. Phillips, Wilmore.
Rev. E. A. Dillard presented a letter of dismission from
Enoree Presbytery. The examination on Experimental Re-
ligion by the Moderator was sustained. The examination
on Theology by Dr. C. R. Nisbet was sustained ; that on
Church Government by Rev. J. G. Garth was sustained.
The examination as a whole was sustained and Mr. Dil-
lard was received after signing the covenant.
Presbytery adjourned with prayer by Rev. P. W. Wilson
to meet at the call of the Moderator.
J. W. STORK, Permanent Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
CALLED MEETING
Mecklenburg Presbytery met at the call of the modera-
tor at 5 :30 p. m., October 10th, and was opened with prayer
by Rev. C. G. Long. Present :
Ministers: L. W. Brown, J. G. Garth, J. W. Stork, Q. N.
Huneycutt, C. G. Long, Lynn R. Walker, D.D., S. B. Mc-
Lean, C. R. Nisbet, D.D., T. H. Mitchell, E. A. Dillard.
Elders: _W. M. Junker, Philadelphia; A. M. Gray, Tenth
Avenue ; N. J. Phillips, Wilmore.
The call of Tenth Avenue Church for the pastoral serv-
ices of Rev. E. A. Dillard was found in order, placed in his
hands and accepted by him. The following commission was
appointed to install Mr. Dillard :
Ministers, W. H. Frazer, D.D., C. W. Sommerville, D.D.,
B. F. Yandell, and Ruling Elder W. H. Belk.
Rev. L. W. Brown offered his resignation as pastor of
Philadelphia Church. Elder W. M. Junker reported that
the congregation reluctantly concurred with Mr. Brown.
The pastoral relation was dissolved and Mr. Brown dis-
missed to Suwanee Presbytery. The Stated Clerk was di-
rected to write Suwanee Presbytery a letter of appreciation
of the services of Mr. Brown here. Closed with prayer by
Rev. Q. N. Huneycutt. The minutes of yesterday and to-
day's sessions were read and approved.
J. W. STORK, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
STATED FALL SESSION
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in 118th stated session at
the Candor Presbyterian Church, Tuesday, October 23rd, at
11 a. m., and was opened with a sermon by the retiring-
Moderator, Rev. J. G. Garth, from Jno. 3:16.
The communion followed, being administered by Revs.
W. B. Mcllwaine, D.D., and T. M. Stribling.
Presbytery was constituted with prayer by the Modera-
tor.
The clerk was directed to print in the minutes a suitable
memorial to Rev. A. A. McGeachy, D.D. It was the desire
of Dr. McGeachy that such be not read at Presbytery.
DR. A. A. McGEACHY
Dr. Archibald Alexander McGeachy was born in Robeson Coun-
ty, North Carolina, on March 3, 1869. He was a descendant of a fine
old Highland Scotch family which in itself and through its con-
nections has been prominent in the history of the State.
His early education was received in the public and private schools
of this section and he was a graduate of Davidson College in the
year 1891 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His professional
training was received at Union Theological Seminary, then located at
Hampden-Sidney.
He was ordained to the ministry at Fayetteville in 1894 and ac-
cepted a call to the church at Pleasant Hill, Missouri. In 1895 he
was called to Fulton, Missouri, and next became the pastor of the
church in Sherman, Texas. In 1908 he returned to North Carolina
to take charge of the Second Presbyterian Church in Charlotte,
which he served until his death on September 24, 1928.
Dr. McGeachy was a man of many gifts and graces. His brilliant
and penetrating mind made him a great preacher. His natural lead-
ership made him an effective organizer. His interest in people made
his ministry wonderfully efficient, and his kindness of heart won him
friends everywhere. The impression he has left on his church is
profound, and his influence in Charlotte remains as a definite con-
tribution to its history.
Among the abiding results of his ministry are the Goodfellow's
Club of Charlotte and the Men's Club in his own church. The insti-
tution for delinquent women at Samarcand and the Mecklenburg In-
dustrial Home for wayward girls are monuments to his memory.
He was a trustee of Davidson College and president of the Govern-
ing Board of Queens College. He was identified with every good
work in the life of his city and was a trusted and respected coun-
selor in the work of the Church at large.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 13
No tribute to his memory or history of his work would be com-
plete without the record of the understanding and help he always
sought and found in his own home. Mrs. McGeachy gave him more
than all his friends were ever able to do and his own desire would
be that her name should be linked with his in all his accomplish-
ments.
CHARLES E. RAYNAL.
ROLL
The roll was called and the following found present :
Ministers: J. W. Grier, R. J. Mcllwaine, C. H. Little,
C E. White, R. W. Culbertson, J. G. Garth, J. W. Stork, J.
M. Walker, W. H. Frazer, Q. N. Huneycutt, W. B. Mc-
llwaine, S. B. Lyerly, T. F. Huneycutt, M. E. Peabodv, W.
B. S. Chandler, W. T. Smith, A. A. Walker, C. G. Long,''S. B.
McLean, W. H. Johnston, C. H. Rowan, T. M. Stribling, B.
F. Yandell, P. W. Wilson, J. A. Caligan A. L. McDuffie, W.
H. Matheson, E. G. Gammon, T. H. Mitchell, W. C. Cope-
land, W. G. Thomas, E. A. Dillard. T. R. Alexander— 33
ministers.
Albemarle, H. P. Efird ; Amity, John Kuck ; Banks, O.
W. Potts; Bethel, J. M. Potts; Biscoe, J. W. Ewing; Cald-
well Memorial, M. W. Woodside ; Cameronian, H. T. Bald-
win; Candor, Jesse Page; Charlotte First, J. M. Oldham;
Charlotte Second, Alex. Graham ; Cook's Memorial, R. F.
Rozzell; Cornelius, A. J. McConnell ; Ellerbe, J. H. McRae ;
Macedonia, J. A. McLeod; Marston, J. L. Cashion ; Midway,
G. A. McRae ; Morven, J. A. McDonald ; Mt. Gilead, Jno. A
McAulay; Myers Park, J. L. Ranson ; Norman, A. N. Cagle
Paw Creek, J. W. Davenport ; Pineville, W. A. Rogers
Providence, H. Q. Alexander; Ramah, J. W. Deweese
Roberdell, W. T. Wicker; Seversville, R. O. Robinson
Sharon, T. F. Black; Steele Creek, E. M. Neal ; St. Paul, J
D. Woodside; Sugaw Creek, C. L. Abernethy; Tenth Ave-
nue, H. T. Davis ; Wadesboro, C A. Bland ; Walkersville,
A. B. Norwood; Westminster, D. S. Monteith.
Rev. S. B. Lyerly was nominated for Moderator and
elected by acclamation.
Rev. C. G. Long was likewise elected temporary clerk.
The Committee on Orders recommended the following
hours : 9 a. m. to 12 :30, 2 to 5 and 7 p. m. to adjourn at will.
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Dinner and supper Wednesday will be served at Macedonia
Church and the afternoon session held there. The report
was adopted.
Order was taken to hear the Committee on Evang-elism
from 3 to 4 p. m. today.
Rev. T. R. Alexander presented a letter of dismission
from Potomac Presbytery.
Recess was taken for lunch.
AFTERNOON SESSION
Presbytery reconvened, was opened with prayer by Rev.
W. B. S. Chandler.
The Moderator announced the appointment of the fol-
lowing committees :
STANDING COMMITTEES
Devotional: A. L. McDuffie, Jesse Page.
Bills and Overtures: J. G. Garth, R. W. Culbertson, H.
T. Baldwin, John Kuck.
Judicial: C. E. White, T. F. Huneycutt, J. M. Potts, R.
F. Rozzell.
Presbytery's Home Missions: Q. N. Huneycutt, M. E.
Peabody, A. D. McConnell, J. A. McLeod, C. L. Abernethy.
Calls and Supplies: P. W. Wilson, W. T. Smith, M. W.
Woodside, Jno. A. McAulay.
Records of Presbytery: B. F. Yandell, E. A. Dillard, J.
D. Woodside.
Minutes of General Assembly: W. B. Mcllwaine, C. A.
Bland, T. H. Mitchell, J. L. Ranson.
Presbytery's Assessments: W. B. S. Chandler* E. M.
Neal, J. A. Caligan, H. T. Davis.
Nominations: S. B. Lyerly, J. G. Garth, J. M. Oldham.
Thanks: W. G. Thomas, D. S. Monteith.
Mr. Alexander was examined on Experimental Religion
bv the Moderator, which was sustained.
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The examination on Theology by Rev. C. H. Rowan was
sustained.
The examination on Church Government and the Sacra-
ments, conducted by Rev. M. E. Peabody was sustained.
The examination as a whole was sustained and Mr.
Alexander was enrolled after having signed the covenant.
The call of the Second Presbyterian Church, Charlotte
for Rev. J. F. Hardie, D.D., of Houston, Texas, was read,
found in order and the Church permitted to prosecute same
before Brazos Presbytery.
The report from Queens College was read and referred
to the Committee on Schools and Colleges.
Rev. R. S. Latimer was granted a letter of dismission to
Harmony Presbytery, and the clerk was directed to wire
same.
Rev. W. S. Hamiter was granted permission to labor out
of the bounds of the Presbytery until the next meeting of
Presbytery.
The report of Rev. W. S. Hamiter, commissioner to the
General Assembly was received and he was commended for
his diligence.
A letter from the Christian Observer relative to Church
paper week was read, received as information and the
churches of the Presbytery were urged to observe Church
paper week November 4 to 11.
A report from the Trustees of Presbytery was read, re-
ceived and their request for $50.00 was granted to be paid
as soon as the funds are available.
Presbytery of Mecklenburg,
Mecklenburg County,
Chalotte, N. C.
Gentlemen : L
Your Trustees beg to report :
We met in executive session October 10, 1928, at the office of the
Industrial Loan & hivestment Bank, Charlotte, N. C.
On motion Mr. J. Lee Choate was chosen Chairman of the Board and
H. C. Alexander, Secretary.
We obtained much valuable information from Rev. A. A. Walker as
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to the Stanley Hall property and also took cognizance of the property in
Rockingham left to the Presbytery by the late W. R. Coppedge.
Owing to the tangled condition of the Stanley Hall property, your
Trustees request an appropriation of $50 to cover the cost of ferreting out
and adjusting errors and discrepancies that may have occurred in the
handling of the property.
Respectfully submitted,
J. LEE CHOATE, Chairman,
HUNTER MARSHALL, JR.,
H. C. ALEXANDER,
Trustees for Mecklenburg Presbytery.
By H. C. ALEXANDER, Secretary.
The report of the commission to install Rev. E. A. Dil-
lard was adopted :
INSTALLATION OF REV. E. A. DILLARD
The commission appointed to install the Rev. E. A. Dillard as pastor
of Tenth Avenue Church met at the church, Sunday evening, October
21, 1928, at 7:30. Constituted with prayer.
Those present were Dr. W. H. Frazer, Dr. C. W. Sommerville,
Elder W. H. Belk and Rev. B. F. Yandell. Dr. Frazer presided, preached
the sermon and propounded the constitutional questions ; Rev. B. F. Yan-
dell charged the pastor, and Dr. Sommerville charged the congregation.
Mr. Dillard was duly installed as pastor and he pronounced the
benediction.
DR. W. H. FRAZER, Moderator.
B. F. YANDELL, Sec'y. for Com.
The Committee on Evangelism rendered its report which
was adopted. Pending the adoption, Dr. W. B. Mcllwaine
conducted a conference on evangelism as ordered by Pres-
bytery.
COMMITTEE ON EVANGELISM
Our hearts are made glad by the many evidences of the power of the
Holy Spirit in our evangelistic meetings during the first half of the church
year. The reports that have come to us not only show a large increase m
church membership through these meetings, but also indicate an increasing-
interest in evangelism on the part of the churches, and a more systematic
effort to make the evangelistic meetings more effective and worthwhile.
Under the instructions of the Presbytery to "function throughout the
Presbytery" your committee sent out self-addressed report cards to all
the churches, with the request that these be filled out and mailed promptly.
The response has been most gratifying. And your committee would ex-
press its appreciation of your co-operation in enabling us to tabulate some
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of the results of your meetings, and to present them to Presbytery for its
consideration.
Your committee received 62 reports from the churches ; 48 meetings
were held over a period of 438 days ; resulting in 365 professions oi faith ;
254 additions to the Presbyterian Church by profession ; and 64 by letter ;
making a total of 318 additions to the Church. At the Spring meeting of
Presbytery, 27 assignments to meetings were made. Thirteen meetings
were held by those assigned ; six held by others than those assigned ; and
eight were either not held, or not reported. Of the 14 reports where no
meeting has been held, some churches are planning to hold m^eetings later ;
while others are substituting the personal evangelistic carnpaign in the
place of the usual meeting.
We believe that the personal evangelistic campaign is worthy of the
consideration of all our churches. It may be that this method of evangti-
lism will help solve the problem of reaching those who do not hear the
preacher's message, and of giving the church membership an actual and
definite part in evangelistic service. Nevertheless, we believe that as far
as possible, the churches should engage in special seasons of specific evange-
listic efifort, in which the Word of God may be preached, and the thoughts
and prayers of the Church, as a whole, concentrated toward the seeking of
the lost, and the edifying of the Church.
To this end we recommend :
l.That if practicable a series of evangelistic meetings be held in every
church of the Presbytery at least once a year.
2. That we call upon all our people to offer prayer in behalf of these
meetings ; and that God may richly bless the churches where meetings are
being held, the pastors, and the men conducting them.
A. A. WALKER, Chairman.
The report of the Committee on Stewardship was
adopted.
REPORT OF THE STEWARDSHIP COMMITTEE
The Stewardship Committee of the Presbytery makes the following
report :
The amount apportioned to Mecklenburg Presbytery by the Synod of
North Carolina at its Fall session of 1928 for the Benevolent Causes of
the Assembly, Synod and Presbytery combined, for the fiscal year begin-
ning April 1, 1929, is $220,000, which is an increase of $22,103 over the
apportionment for the preceding year, which was $197,897.
According to the Statistical Report from- this Presbytery to the Gen-
eral Assembly for the last fiscal year, the Benevolent gifts from this
Presbytery for all causes (exclusive of Congregational Home Missions and
Miscellaneous Contributions) amounted to $206,967. A similar report for
the preceding year showed like Benevolences amounting to $237,257, indi-
cating a decline in such gifts of $30,320 for the last fiscal year as compared
with the year previous. However, from the Five Year Comparative Sum-
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mary of Contributions for Benevolences published in the back of the Pres-
byterial Minutes for the Fall session of 1927, it appears that this Presby-
tery's Benevolent gifts for the year which ended March 31, 1926, amounted
to $186,055. So that the gain in Benevolent gifts for the fiscal year just
passed over that which closed March 31, 1926 (the third year back) was
$20,912.
The Benevolent Causes suffering a loss on account of the above men-
tioned decline are as follows :
Foreign Missions, $7,537; Assembly's Home Missions, $4,248; Bible
Cause, $195. Publication and S. S. Work and Assembly's Training School
showed slight gains. The net loss in gifts to the Assembly's Causes for
last year as compared to the previous year was $11,678.
The decline in the amount of contributions to Synod's causes was as
follows: Synod's Home Missions, $1,307; Orphans' Home, $9,172; Edu-
cational Institutions, $10,096. Presbytery's Home Missions showed an
increase of $1,971. The net decrease in gifts to the Synodical and Pres-
byterial Causes, therefore, for the last fiscal year as compared to the one
just before it was $18,613.
The total amount subscribed for all Benevolent Causes in the last
Every Member Canvass was $26,696 less than that for the preceding year.
In the preceding year, the total amount subscribed for Benevolences for
all purposes fell short of the Synod's apportionment to the Presbytery only
$3,140, whereas in the Canvass in March, 1928, the amount of the sub-
scriptions was short of the apportionment for Benevolences by $51,978.
From information coming to the Committee, there is reason to fear
that a number of the churches of the Presbytery are backward this year
in making good subscriptions given in the last Every Member Canvass,
and the Committee feels that it behooves such churches to bestir themselves
in carrying out their obligations.
Recommendations
1st. That the Benevolent Askings of the Presbytery for the year
beginning April 1, 1929, amounting to $220,000, be adopted, and that the
Stewardship Committee be authorized to prorate this amount between the
churches of the Presbytery and when so prorated the same to be printed
and attached in the back of the Minutes of the Fall meeting of the Presby-
tery, as heretofore, and that all the churches be urged to present such
amounts as shall be apportioned to them as the minimum to be raised for
the Benevolent Causes.
2nd. That the per centum for distribution of the Benevolent Funds
for the year beginning April 1, 1929, be the same as now obtains, viz :
Per Cent.
Foreign Missions 33.3
Assembly's Home Missions 16.
Christian Education and Ministerial Relief 7.5
Publication and Sabbath School Wrk 2.
Assembly's Training School .6
Bible Cause .6
.60%
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Synod's Home Missions 7.5
Barium Springs 7.5
Schools and Colleges 8.7
Union Theological Seminary 1.3
Presbytery's Home Missions .: 15.
.40%
Total 1007r
3rd. That March 10', 1929, be the date set for the Every Member
Canvass ior the next fiscal year, in accordance with the recommendation
of the Assembly ; that the week preceding the date of the Canvass be
devoted to prayer and the instruction of the congregation in the great
needs and o-pportunities in our Home and Foreign fields ; that every
church, if possible, hold special services each night of the week preceding
the day of the Canvass, and that special programs relating to some pait
of our Benevolent Work be presented at these services by some organi-
zation of the church ; that every church endeavor to have each of its
members make subscriptions both to the Benevolent Causes and to the
Current Expense Budget of the Church ; that full reports of the Canvass
be made to the Presbytery at the Spring meeting.
4th, That the second Monday in February, 1929, be appointed as a
Day of Prayer by the Presbytery, when it shall meet at the First Presby-
terian Church, Charlotte, at 11 o'clock a. m., for the purpo-se of prayer to
God for His guidance and blessing upon the work of His Church at large
and upon that committed to this Presbytery, and that He may lead us into
a larger and more faithful service in every department of His work, in-
cluding the preparation for and carrying out of the Every Member Can-
vass, and that Moderator appoint some one to conduct this service.
5th. That a sum not exceeding $100 be allowed for necessary ex-
penses incident to the conduct of the office of Presbyterial Secretary of
Stewardship, to be paid by the Presbyterial Treasurer out of the Tax
Fund, on statement furnished by the Secretary of Stewardship.
6th. That a Comparative Summary for the past five years be again
published in the Fall Minutes of the Presbytery, showing the number of
ministers, candidates, churches, conversions, communicants, Sunday School
enrollment, family altars, tithers, values of church and manse property,
and indebtedness thereon ; contributions to the various causes for Benevo-
lences, as well as for current expenses and building purposes ; Benevolent
Askings during this five-year period and subscriptions thereto and for
current expenses.
7th, That each of the churches of the Presbytery be urged to observe
strictly the percentages adopted by the Synod and by the Presbytery for
the distribution of its Benevolent funds in order that each of the Benevo-
lent causes may receive the amount anticipated forthat cause and upon
which its maintenance to that extent depends.
Respectfully submitted,
S. B. McLEAN, Secretary oi Stewardship.
Order was set for Foreign Missions at 7:30 p. m.
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The Ad Interim Committee on Amendments to Book of
Church Order made a report, which was adopted :
AMENDMENTS TO BOOK OF CHURCH ORDER
ON JUDICIAL COMMISSIONS
Your Ad Interim Committee appointed at the last Stated meeting of
Presbytery to consider and make recommendation on the Amendments
to Book Order sent down by the 1928 Assembly, would respectfully
report as follows :
Your Committee would recommend the adoption by the Presbytery
of all these proposed amendments, copy o£ which is hereto attached.
(Signed) C. H. ROWAN, Chairman.
The report of the commission to organize a church at
Midway was read and adopted:
ORGANIZATION OF MIDWAY CHURCH
To the Presbytery of Mecklenburg, 118th Stated Session, Candor Church,
October 23, 1928:
The Commission heretofore appointed by the Presbytery to organize
a church in the Midway mill community, west of Rockingham, makes the
following report :
At 3 :00 o'clock p. m., on July 29, 1928, the commission, composed of
Rev. A. A. Walker as Chairman, Rev. T. M. Stribling and Rev. W. G.
Thomas, and Ruling Elders H. T. Baldwin, K. M. Mclnnis, J. H. McRae
and F. L. Pickett, met at the Midway Community Church at an appointed
afternoon service. Rev. W. G. Thomas acting as Secretary, The commis-
sion was constituted with prayer by Rev. W. T. Smith.
After the singing of a hymn and the invocation by Rev. A. A.
Walker, Rev. W. G. Thomas preached a sermon from the text, I Chron-
icles 11 :10. Following the sermon the chairman of the commission made
a brief recital of the previous proceedings of the Presbytery preparatory
to the service. Then the persons already church members were received
by letter and by statement. The applicants for admission to the church
on profession of faith in Christ were examined and received. The number
received into the church by letter, statement and on profession of faith
was 20.
The Covenant prescribed in the Book of Church Order was proposed
by the chairman to the congregation and it was entered affirmatively, with
uplifted hand. Declaration was then made by the chairman that they con-
stituted a chjUrch according to the Word of God and the faith and order
of the Presbyterian Church in the United States.
It was declared desirable to elect Elders and Deacons. Steps were
taken according to the Book of Church Order. J. E. McRae and A. S.
Ormsby were elected Elders, and Scott Brigman and L. W. McCaskill
were elected Deacons. The questions for examination and ordination and
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installation prescribed in the Book of Church Order were then proposed by
the chairman to the candidates, and being answered in the affirmative, the
usual question to the congregation was then proposed and affirmative
answer was given. The candidates were then set apart to the offices of
Elders and Deacons, with prayer by the chairman and laying on of the
hands of the Presbjiiery, according to the apostolic example, after which
the chairman and other members of the Presbviery extended the right
hand of fellowship. Declaration was then made that they had been
elected, ordained and installed to their offices, agreeably to the Word of
God, and according to the Constitution of the Presb3l:erian Church in the
United States.
A charge to the officers and congregation was then delivered by Rev.
T. M. Stribling. Action was taken to secure the regular ministration of
the Word. The church was named Midway. The service was closed with
the benediction by Rev. A. A, Walker.
Respectfully submitted,
W. G. THOMAS. Secretary.
Rev. R. J. Mclhvaine was appointed to audit the books
of the Committee on Christian Education.
Recess was taken until 7 p. m.
EVENING SESSION
Presbytery reconvened, the order being- Foreign Mis-
sions Dr. E. G. Gammon was asked to preside. The report
of the Foreign Mission Committee was read. Pending its
adoption, Rev. Lacy L. Little, D.D., of China, Moderator
of the Synod, delivered a most excellent Foreign Mission
address. The report with its recommendation was adopted.
Presbytery was led in prayer for the Foreign Mission
Work by the Moderator.
FOREIGN MISSION REPORT
Your Committee submits the following- report pending the adoption
of which request is made that Dr. Lacy Little, of our China Mission force.
be heard :
From our Committee at Nashville there is still rejoicing over the
gifts of the Church for the past year— $1,663,000. Of this amount $125,-
000 was donated for part payment of the China situation due to the civil
war. The balance paid the year's expenses and reduced the deficit from
$290,000 to $132. Nor did' this interfere with the churches' gifts to
other causes.
For the present year the news is not so bright. According to the last
word from Dr. E. W. Smith, we are $27,000 behind our receipts up to
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September 1st for 1927, and $56,000 behind our receipts for the same
period of 1926.
There is no special word concerning the various countries in which we
have our missions other than the account of the splendid labor of our
workers who struggle patiently on in their respective places. The single
exception has to do with China. The news from that country is to the
effect that the situation is clearing. According to one missionary, "The
evangelistic opportunity is greater than ever before."
Upon the request of the Committee we urge this recommendation :
That Presbytery engage in special prayer that the missionary spirit
of our Lord may be richly poured, out upon the ministers and members
that the foreign work of our Church may advance and the appeals for rein-
forcements from Africa, Brazil, Japan, Korea, and Mexico, be met.
EDGAR G. GAMMON, Chairman.
Rev. J. M. Walker was appointed to conduct the devo-
tional exercises Wednesday morning.
The report of the Presbytery's Home Mission Commit-
tee was read and referred to the Standing Committee on
Home Missions.
The Commitee on the Assembly's Minutes rendered the
following report which was adopted:
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ASSEMBLY'S MINUTES
This Committee would announce that it's Chairman has for the first
time in his life gone from beginning to end of the Assembly's Minutes.
We find many things of interest, the mo^re important of which for
this Presbytery come before the body through other channels. We call
attention to the fact that Mecklenburg's overture that our Church cease
correspondence with the United Presbyterian Church relative to organic
union, was answered in the negative. Again the Presb^^teries are ordered,
not urged to "collect and pay" one cent per member for the support of the
Historical Foundation. All ministers are urged to familiarize themselves
with the principles and details of this proposed Annuity Plan.
Strange as it may seem, the new Directory for Worship was endorsed
almo'St unanimously by the Presbyteries, but was referred back to the -:\d
Interim' Committee on Optional Forms, to be brought before the Assembly
of 1929 for final action.
The report of the Committee on Christian Education urges many
resolutions on the churches. The Committee on Bills and Overtures hands
down a number of decisions that should delight our ecclesiastical lawyers.
There is a half-page of "Special Days and Weeks," that take up a great
part of our year's work. By elimination we can get a few good dates for
our own programs.
To sum up our report in much seriousness. This record of the work
of the Assembly relates in every page to the work of our Presbytery and
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our individual churches. It deserves a careful study by every pastor, that
he may carry on our work intelligently.
For the Committee,
WM. B. McILWAINE, JR., Chairman.
The report on Presbyterial Tax Assessment was read,
approved and the recommendations adopted :
COMMITTEE ON ASSESSMENTS
The following churches have not paid their Presbyterial Tax for
year 1927-28: Allen, Bethany, Camden, Indian Trail, Lee Park, Liles-
ville, Stevenson, Tenth Avenue, Unionville, Walkersville, Marshville,
Midland, Morgan Memorial. North Charlotte, Oakboro, Peachland, Polk-
ton, Rehoboth, Salem, Seversville, Six-Mile Creek, Siler, and Stanfield.
With reference to the report of the Committee on Assessments dock-
eted by Spring meeting oif Presbytery for consideration at this Fall meet-
ing, which report is as follows :
1. That the Presbyterial assessment for the year beginning
April 1, 1928, be reduced from 22 cents per capita to 17 cents per capita.
2. In interest O'f Presbyterial economy we would recommend that
the Minutes of the Presbytery be printed only once a year instead of the
present custom of twice a year.
We would recommend :
L That the Presbyterial tax be reduced to 20 cents per capita.
2. That the Minutes be printed twice a year as hitherto.
Respectfully submitted,
W. B. S. CHANDLER, Chairman.
Presbytery instructed the pastors and ruling elders rep-
resenting churches hot having paid their Presbyterial tax
to bring the matter to the attention of their churches and
that this tax be paid as soon as possible.
The report on Leadership Training was adopted :
REPORT ON LEADERSHIP TRAINING
Your Sub-committee on Religious Education having charge of the
Leadership Training Work of the Presbytery, begs to report as follows :
L In carrying out your reco^mmendations of last year j^our Com-
mittee employed four ladies from the Assembly's Training School to
conduct Daily Vacation Bible Schools and Teacher Training work. These
yo'ung ladies began their work June 4th and continued for 12 weeks. Each
team of two ladies conducted six schools, making a total of 12 schools
in all. These schools were conducted in the following churches :
Huntersville, West Avenue, St. Paul, The Plaza, Mulberry, Hamlet,
Troy, Amity, Ellerbe, Central Steele Creek, Wadeville, Sugaw Creek.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Receipts
W. E. Price, from Home Missions Treasury $300:00
J. G. Garth, from P'resbyterial Tax 400.00
Sale of Books 11.40
Free-will offerings 52.04
Total Receipts $763.^4
Expenditures
Salaries $547.50
Books and Supplies 67.53
Traveling Expenses of Workers > 94.85
Postage, etc. 2.50
$712.43
Balance on hand 51.01
Recom men datio ns
We recommend :
1. That all churches of the Presbytery which can possibly do so,
put on these D. V. B. S. and Teacher Training Classes.
2. That Presbytery continue their support of the work as before in
the weaker churches of the Presbytery. That four workers from our
Assembly Training School be employed. That $300 be appropriated from
Presbytery's Tax Fund and the same amount from the Home Mission
Committee, the remainder of the amount needed to come from the Rich-
mond Committee and from free-will offerings where the work is done.
3. That teachers and prospective teachers of our Sunday Schools
be urged to take advantage of the Training Qasses conducted by the
teachers from the Training School, and that they attend the Teacher
Training School which begins at First Presbyterian Church, Sunday
afternoon, October 28th.
Respectfully submitted,
P. W. WILSON.
The report on the Bible Cause was read and with its
recommendations adopted :
THE BIBLE CAUSE
To the Presbytery of Mecklenburg :
Your Committee on the Bible Cause submits the following report :
The American Bible Society has rounded out 112 years of valuable
service to the Church and to the Kingdom. We are of the opinion that
our people have failed to visualize the great work which this Society is
doing. We would more fully appreciate the fact that the American Bible
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Society is the servant o^f the Church in translating the Scriptures into
some 850 languages and dialetcs and in distributing millions of copies in
whole or in part in all countries of the world. During these 112 years it
has published and circulated 194,000,000 volumes. Last year all previous
records as to production were broken when more than 10.000,000 volumes
were printed. The Society could say with John Wesley, "The world is my
parish." It is the right hand oi all missionary enterprises at home and
abroad. While it supplies the foreign nations of the world with millions
of copies of Scripture it is not unmindful of the strangers within our
gates. Last year it distributed the Scriptures in 108 languages^ here in our
own country.
The budget of the Society for the year amounts to $1,345,000. It is
estimated that $800,000 of this amount will come from the sale of Bibles,
from rents, and from endowments. It will have to look to the vario'US
churches and to individual donors for the remaining $545,000. During
the year 1927 the various churches contributed about $212,000. Our own
Church gave $19,592 of the $28,282 we were asked to give. We carried
only about two^-thirds of our part of the financial burden. According to
the Assembly's Minutes this was the smallest amount we have given since
1919.
Since 1921 each year has sho>wn a decrease in gifts from all denomi-
nations over the previous year, except in 1926, v/hen a small increase was
shown; and this has taken place in the face of the steadily increasing
needs of the Society. Only by using certain funds previously set aside by
the Board of Managers, and by borrowing $30,000, was the work of last
year made possible. Should we not more adequately support this Society
which for 112 years has given itself to the wider distribution of the Bible
for the sake of the spiritual life O'f all mankind ?
Recommenclations
1. That Presbytery requests ministers and churches to call the atten-
tion of their people to the fact that the American Bible Society is always
ready to co-operate in every possible way to promote the circulation of the
Bible.
2. That all churches oi Presbytery be urged to give to the American
Bible Society the full amount that is due this cause. As there is no one
to keep this cause constantly before the churches, it is likely to be over-
looked.
3. That Sunday, December 2, 1928, be observed as Bible Sunday in
all our churches, and that on this day our ministers inform^ their people
about the great work the Society is doing. The topic for Bible Sunday
this year is "Sowing the Seed of the Kingdom."
THE COMMITTEE,
S. B. LYERLY, Chairman.
J. W. STORK.
H. Q. ALEXANDETi.
The report of the Committee on Nominations was
adopted. (See Directory in the covers).
After prayer led by Rev. C. H. Rowan Presbytery ad-
journed until 9 a. m. Wednesday.
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WEDNESDAY MORNING SESSION
Presbytery reconvened at 9 a. m. Wednesday, October
24th. Devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. J. M.
Walker.
The minutes of Tuesday's session were read and ap-
proved.
The report of the Committee on Christian Education
and Ministerial Relief was adopted as amended:
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
Your Committee of Christian Education beg leave to make the follow-
ing report :
We have on our roll 21 Candidates for the Ministry, most of whom
are in school doing satisfactory work. B. F. Brown, F. J. Knox, W. B.
McSwain, H. A. Gibbert and H. T. Rumage are in Davidson College;
J. Marshall Smith is in King College ; J. M. Davis is in Presbyterian
College of S. C. ; J. D. Withrow, Jr., is in Hampden-Sidney College ;
J. H. Caligan and M. R. Mo^ss are in Union Seminary; H. W. Alexander
and E. E. Houghton are in Kentucky Seminary; E. T. Lothery, P. P.
Thrower, T. F. Wallace and J. A. Mclntyre are in Columbia Seminary.
Guy Weeks is engaged in Y. M. C. A. work at Petersburg, Va. He
reports that he hopes to go back to school next year..
Jack Hand is working in Charlotte. His father is dead and he is
helping to support his family. C. L. Norwood is teaching. F. J. Hutchin-
son is working in Rockingham. John Murray Smith is working and does
not know whether he will be able to go back to school. He reports that he
hopes to be able to complete his course some time in the future. W. E.
Love was working at Flamlet when your Chairman heard from him last.
We make the following recommendations :
(1) That the Committee of Christian Education and Ministerial
Relief at Louisville be requested to make the following appropriations :
To J. H. Caligan, J. M. Davis, H. A. Gilbert, E. F. Lothery, W. E.
McSwain, H. T. Ramage, P. P. Thrower and T. F. Wallace, $125 each;
to C. K. Pool, $75, and to J. D. Withrow, $100'.
(2) When the Presbytery shall have been unable for two years to
get a communication from any of its Candidates for the Ministry, the
names of such Candidates shall be automatically dropped from the roll of
Candidates for the Alinistry.
J. W. GRIER, Chairman.
Report of Committee on Presbytery's Minutes was
adopted. The clerk was directed to have the minutes print-
ed in chronological order. It was also ordered that an in-
dex be added to the minutes :
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 2y
PRESBYTERY'S MINUTES
Your Committee on Presbytery's Minutes beg to report that the
records of Presbytery have been well kept and we find nothing special io
report.
B. FRANK YANDELL, Chairman.
E. A. DILLARD.
JOE D. WOODSIDE.
The report of the Committee on Nominations was re-
considered, and the name of Mrs. C. C. Hook was substi-
tuted for that of Dr. A. A. McGeachey, deceased.
The hour of adjournment was moved from 10:30 to
10:40, to hear Dr. Frazer for 15 minutes.
Rev. W. H. Frazer, D.D., spoke on Queens College.
Presbytery by rising vote, expressed sympathetic in-
terest in the institution and urged all the churches of the
Presbytery who have not already done so to invite Dr.
Frazer to speak to them in the interest of the college.
Recess was taken until 11 a. m.
SESSION AT MACEDONIA CHURCH
Presbytery reconvened in Macedonia Church at 11:00
a. m. The Ad Interim Committee appointed "to consider
the matter of certain literature published and advertised by
the Presbyterian Committee of Publication," asked for an
extension of time which was granted.
An adjourned meeting was set for 2:00 p. m., December
3rd, in the First Presbyterian Church in Charlotte.
The report of the Treasurer was adopted :
TREASURER'S REPORT
The Treasurer would report that there is a balance O'f $205.12 in the
treasury.
The Clerk has paid $100 of the Synod's Tax of %21i^.^(i, leaving a
balance of $135.66 to be paid.
The Treasurer of Benevolences is still due his salary of $100.
The Assembly's claim for a tax for the Historical Commission at
Montreat of one cent for each member, about $157, has never been or-
dered paid.
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The balance in the treasury will be necessary for minutes and other
expenses. It is hoped that delinquent churches will come to the relief of
the Presbj^ery.
J. G. GARTH.
The Committee on Sabbath Observance and Family Re-
ligion submitted the report which was adopted as amended :
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE SABBATH AND
FAMILY RELIGION
If we should have a text for this report we would use the potent
words : "If the foundations are destroyed, what shall the righteous do." As
the result in large measure of the great war, the back-wash so-called, the
very depths of our social customs have been broken up and our moral
and spiritual foundations seriously menaced. Because the organized forces
of evil saw the Sabbath Day and almost every other commandment set
aside to gain the war, they have become obsessed with the thought that
nothing is inviolate. That nothing shall be able to withstand the onslaught
of their forces against the forces of righteousness, not even the home and
the Sabbath Day. The abandon and dare-devil courage developed by the
war, their insatiable greed, have been turned loose upon the moral and
spiritual foundations of our country — our Christian institutions and great
reforms, and they battle with a grim determination and assurance of suc-
cess born of the pit itself. Three things are especially attacked by them
at this time: The home, the Sabbath Day and the great moral "and eco-
nomic reform, the prohibition of the liquor traffic, that great enemy of
the home. It is the same forces of evil which are attacking all along i-he
line, and our only hope is to put on the whole armour and fight for our
lives and our institutions.
In the spirit of our forefathers who established our government and
planted the Christian Church in the wilderness of the new world, we must
work and fight and pray and never give up the struggle since we are
assured of final success.
We recommend that the offering for Protestant Relief and the Lord's
Day Alliance be taken upon the fourth Sabbath of October, the day set
apart by the General Assembly.
R. J. McILWAIN,
For the Committee.
Dr. C. R. Nisbet was reappointed to preach the Presby-
terlai sermon.
Presbytery continued business and postponed the ser-
mon until the afternoon session.
YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK
The Ad Interim Committee on Young People's Work
submitted a report which was amended and adopted and is
as follows :
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Whereas, the Synod's program for Young People's Work is prac-
tically limited to the Davidson Conference ;
Whereas, the majority of Presbyterian Young People are to some
extent affiliated with the Christian Endeavor organization ;
Whereas, attending a Christian Endeavor Convention entails* consid-
erable expense upon our young people ;
Therefore, Mecklenburg Presbytery earnestly requests, recommends
and urges the Board of Managers of the Davidson Conference :
First. To recognize the fact that a very large number of its student
body are Christian Endeavorers,
Second. To include in the curriculum an optional course in Christian
Endeavor Methods.
Third. That one evening's session be given over to Presbyterian
Christian Endeavor Societies for the launching of their program for the
year.
The Young People's Work Committee was granted per-
mission to promote a Presbyterial Conference next summer,
and authority to request Queens College property for use of
this Conference.
Rev. V. R. Gaston, of Fayetteville Presbytery was in-
troduced and invited to sit as a visiting brother.
Presbytery took recess for lunch to reconvene at the
call of the Moderator.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
Presbytery reconvened at 1 :45.
The Judicial Committee reported that no matters had
come into its hands.
The report of the Standing Committee on Home Mis-
sions submitted its report which was adopted :
HOME MISSIONS
Your Standing Committee on Home Missions would make the fol-
lowing report :
We have examined the report of the Executive Committee of Home
Missions and wish to commend the Committee for its splendid report.
We would endorse the report and recommend its adoption with all the
recommendations.
Q. N. HUNNEYCUTT, Chairman.
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REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF HOME MISSIONS
The Executive Committee of Home Missions submits the following
report for the first half of the Church year :
Your Committee rejoices in the progress that is being made in Home
Mission labors. Good work is being done in practically every field under
the care of this Committee. The men are faithful, and some most encour-
aging reports are coming in. Moreover, the churches are supporting this
work with a greater liberality than ever before ; and it is being sent in
with a regularity that is to be most heartily commended. It saves us the
necessity of borrowing at the bank to pay the workers, and wondering all
the year long whether or not we are going to have enough to meet our
expenses in the end. I speak for the whole Committee when I say the
liberal contributions to this work is changing the whole character of the
work for those in charge. Having gotten out from under the staggermg
debt which we inherited a few years ago, we are now able to do some real
constructive Home Mission work, and to do it with some pleasure.
In this year's work here are some of the things that are most encour-
aging things that prove to us that the work is well worthwhile.
Evangelism
Reports from the various fields show that there has been a large in-
crease in membership. During the summer there have been 173 profes-
sions of faith. 121 of whom united with our Church. In addition 97 have
been received by letter. This is a lar^r number than was reported for
the whole of last year. Thirty-one meetings have been held, and the large
majority O'f those coming into the Church on profession of faith came
through the meetings ; to be exact, 117 out of the 121. For this reason we
are led to believe that the men should put more emphasis on Evangelism
in their weekly preaching.
Conference of the Home Mission Men
A conference of the Home Mission workers was held in the Caldwell
Memorial Church, Charlotte, on June 26th, lasting all day. The time was
taken up in a discussion of the practical problems of the field. It resulted
in a better understanding of our common task, and a more wholehearted
co-operation on the part of all concerned. The Caldwell Memorial Church
furnished delightful entertainment for the conference, and the ladies of
the church provided special entertainment in the afternoon for the wives
of the Home Mission men. In all it was a most delightful day, and so
profitable that the workers voted unanimously to hold such another con-
ference next year, the place being Morven, and the time set, the second
Tuesday of June.
New Church
A new church has been organized at Midway, in one of the suburbs of
Rockingham. They are using a church building erected by the company
owning the mill at that place, but our church has sole use of it. The
organization of this church grew out of a great revival meeting held at
this place this summer by Rev. W. T. Smith, pastor at Bethel and Cor-
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 31
nelius churches. Mr. Smith has been greatly blessed in a number of meet-
ings which he has held this year. Rev. T. M. Stribling is temporarily
supplying this church. We have a recommendation touching its grouping.
New Buildings
The new church at Euto is not complete, but they have reached the
point where they can use it. It should be completed before the winter
is over.
The churches at Peachland and Polkton plan to begin immediately the
erection of a manse for their pastor, M, B. Prince, a Senior at Columbia
Seminary, who comes to them as their pastor in the spring.
The Marston group of churches is in sore need of a manse. This is
one of the most promising fields in all our Home Mission work; but it has
this handicap. Plans are being laid by which one may be secured. Your
Committee will have to help them in this work.
The North Charlotte Church has secured a beautiful new lot, the
gift of Mr. C. W. Johnson, out on the car line, an ideal spot for a church,
and they no'W plan to sell their old church and build a new one at this new
location, costing about $10,000. This church is making rapid progress
under their energetic leader. Rev, A. F. Doty, the new pastor. Your
Committee is helping quite liberally with this work.
The church at Troy, under the leadership of their pastor, W, C,
Copeland, is leaving no stone unturned that they may secure the funds to
complete their much needed new building. We sincerely hope this will be
an accomplished fact before another meeting of Presbytery, As a Pres-
bytery we have played with this important piece of work all too long
already.
Supplies
During the summer the following Supplies have been used :
Pageland Group — M. R. Moss, a Junior at Union Seminary.
Pblkton Group — M. B, Prince, a Middler at Solumbia Seminary.
Moirven Group — J. S. McFall, a Middler at Columbia,
Marston Group — J, A, Mclntyre, who entered Columbia as a Junior
this fall.
Assistant to J, W. Stork at Mt. Gilead and Norwood— T, F, Wallace,
a Middler at Columbia.
Oakboro Groups — S. T, Harvin, a Middler from Columbia.
Vacant Groups
The return of student supplies to the Seminaries leaves the following
groups vacant : Roberdel, Brainard, and Cameronian (this group is being
temporarily supplied by Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine) ; Marston, Marks Creek,
Rourks Chapel, McLean Memorial ; Oakboro, Locust and Stanfield ; Page-
32 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
land, Beulah and Salem. The Polkton group and the Morven group are
being supplied by the students from Columbia who supplied them the past
two summers. These churches will call these students in May, and they
have agreed to accept the calls when Oiffered.
The Home Mission work is in sore need O'f two good men to take the
vacant groups in Richmond County. In fact we need three men for those
fields, thus enabling us to make an additional group out of that crowded
work. It should be mentioned here that the laymen of the churches of
Richmond County are working out a scheme whereby the vacant churches
in the county can have regular services in the absence of the pastor, and
the men are responding most nobly to the call.
Receipts from the churches up to the present this year amount to
$8,000. That together with a balnce on hand to begin the year with of
$3,500, has enabled your Committee to pay all expenses up to date, leaving
a small working balance of about $500 on hand with which to begin the
second half of the year. *
Recommendations
Your Committee offers the following recommendations :
1. That the new church at Midway be grouped with Roberdel, Carn-
eronian, and Brainard.
2. Supplies be granted as follows : Tabernacle and Waxhaw, C. E.
White ; Unionville, Bethlehem, and Midland, T. R. Alexander ; Baden and
Palestine, A. S. Anderson; Six-Mile Greek (temporarily), T. F. Grier ;
Peachland and Polkton, M. B. Prince, student supply ; Morven, Lilesville,
and Camden, J. S. McFall, student supply.
3. In view of the vital importance of Home Missions in the building
up of the Kingdom of God both at home and abroad; and in view of the
many urgent calls that are constantly coming to the Committee to aid in
building needy churches and manses in addition to the supporting of an
ever enlarging work (We now have 51 churches under our care), Presby-
tery urges each church in the Presbytery to do its best to pay in full its
apportionment to Presbytery's Home Missions, namely, 15 per cent of the
total budget.
J. M. WALKER, Chairman.
The following report of the Committee on Leave of Ab-
sence was adopted:
LEAVE OF ABSENCE
To the Presbytery of Mecklenburg :
Your Committee on Leave of Absence would submit the following
report :
Rev. C. W. Sommerville, Rev. J. A. McQueen, Rev. A. S. Johnson
and Rev. W. P. Chedester were excused from this meeting of Presbytery.
Rev. J. A. Calligan and Elders G. A. McRae, of the Midway Church ;
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 33
C A. Bland, of the Wadesboro Church, and Elder John Kuck, of Amity-
Church, were excused after the Tuesday afternoon session.
Respectfully submitted,
T. M. STRIBLING, Chairman.
Rev. W. P. Chedester was given permission to labor out-
side bounds of Presbytery until spring meeting of Presby-
tery.
Rev. R. A. McLeod, of Fayetteville Presbytery was in-
troduced and invited to sit as a visiting brother.
The Committee on Thanks submitted a report which was
adopted by Presbytery with a rising vote.
The invitation of Steele Creek Church was accepted for
the spring meeting of Presbytery on April 9, 1929, at 8 p. m.
Miss Katie B. Pridgen, superintendent of the Albemarle
Normal and Industrial Institute was given the privileges of
the floor and spoke in regard to the Institute.
Presbytery recorded its pleasure upoii hearing Miss
Pridgen.
The Committee on Calls and Supplies submitted the fol-
lowing report which was adopted.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CALLS AND SUPPLIES
The Committee recommends :
1. That the request for M. E. Peabody to continue to supply Newell
Church until next meeting of Presbytery be granted.
2. That the request of Mallard Creek Church for the privilege of
employing Dr. W. H. Frazer as stated supply until next meeting of Pres-
bytery be granted.
P. W. WILSON, Chairman.
Presbytery voted to co-operate with the Assembly's
Historical Foundation in Montreat by depositing our
records with the Foundation and pay the tax levied on Pres-
bytery by the Assembly for the support of this Foundation.
Rev. J. G. Garth presented the Presbyterian Standard.
The Committee on Revising Presbytery's Manual was
continued.
The Minutes of Wednesday's sessions were read and
approved.
The calling of he roll was dispensed with and after sing-
ing a hymn and the bendiction Presbytery adjourned.
J. W. STORK, Permanent Clerk.
C. G. LONG, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
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MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
Comparative Summary for Five Years
1924 1$25 1926 1927 1928
Ministers 59 61 58 58 63
Candidates 15 23 25 28 22
Churches 88 90 92 93 93
Conversions 663 850 694 576 626
Communicants 14,474 15,230 15,584 15,047 15,711
Sunday School Enrollment- 13,385 13,281 13,505 12,953 13,818
Family Altars 787 894 744 822
Tithers 1,761 1,924 1,741 1,625
Value of Churches $1,696,400
Value of Manses 205,300
Debt on Church Property- 213,982
Contributions
Foreign Missions $ 59,921 $ 64,048 $ 61,296 $ 77,160 $ 69,623
Assemjbly's Home Missions 19,822 20,947 20,976 27,410 23.162
Chris. Ed. and Min. Relief. 10,777 9,684 11,276 11,535 11,441
Publication and S. S. Work 3,044 3,244 3,657 3,573 3,700
Assembly's Training Schl._ 892 1,261
Bible Cause __ 784 821 984 1,082 887
Assembly's Causes 94,342 98,744 98,189 121,752 110,074
Synod's Home Missions __ 11,266 10,844 13,269 14,800 13.493
Orphans' Home 34,666 23,992 25,561 39,377 30,205
Educational Institutions — 19,400 21,507 25,082 38,920 28,824
Presby'l. Home Missions.. 18,886 18,153 23,954 22,400 24,371
Synod's and Presby.'s Cs's. 84,218 74,496 87,866 115,506 96,893
Denominational Benevolen's. 178,560 173,240' 186,055 237,258 206,967
Pastors' Salaries 77,427 82,022 84,104 81,900 94,310
Current Expenses 184,244 196,734 149,105 117,011 122,330
Congregational H. Missions 11,216 7,771 6,590 2,758 3,045
Buildings, etc 82,233 90,520
Local Church . 272,887 286,527 249,799 283,902 290,205
Miscellaneous 30,143 28,081 17,152 23,667 24,543
GRAND TOTAL $481,590 $487,848 $453,006 $544,827 $521,715
Every Member Canvass
Benevolent Askings $153,410 $174,581 $176,754 $175,855 $197,997
Amt. Sub. to Benevolences. " '" ^ "
Amt, Sub. to Cur. Expenses
Total Subscriptions 307,621
No. Sub. to Benevolences.-
No. Sub. to Cur. Exp'ses.
Total No. Subscriptions —
141,921
152,638
153,390
172,715
146,019
165,700
189,081
193,068
196,305
195,697
307,621
341,719
246,458
369,020
341,716
6,859
7,591
7,400
7,050
5,245
8,021
8,493
8,461
7,979
6,112
14,880
16,084
15,861
15,029
11,357
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35
BENEVOLENT ASKINGS
For Year Beginning April 1, 1929
1,100 Charlotte First $55.00
2,010 Charlotte Second 33.00
346 Myers Park 27.50
859 Caldwell Memorial 16.50
360 Monroe First 16.50
91 Central Steele Creek 13.20
54 Morven 11.00
704 Steele Creek 11.00
346 Sugaw Creek 11.00
552 Tenth Avenue 11.00
588 Westminster 11.00
64 Banks 8.80
162 Mallard Creek 8.80
92 McGee 8.30
260 Sharon 8.80
110 Wadesboro 8.80
165 WilHams Memorial 8.80
350 Albemarle 6.00
297 Hamlet 6.60
319 Huntersville 6.60
115 Newell 6.60
224 Paw Creek 6.60
141 Pineville 6.60
136 Seversville - 6.60
96 Waxhaw 6.60
345 West Avenue 6.60
139 Cook's Memorial 5.50
29 Pee Dee 5.50
110 Rockingham 5.50
314 St. Pauls 5.50
140 Amity 4.40
88 Cornelius 4.40
256 Hopewell 4.40
110 Pleasant Hill 4.40
423 Philadelphia 4.40
229 Providence 4.40
125 Ramah 4.40
158 Thomasboro 4.40
110 Badin 3.30
155 Bethel 3.30
35 Biscoe 3.30
90 Marshville 3.30
43 Marston 3.30
95 Matthews 3.30
129 Mt. Gilead 3.30
22 Norman 3.30
$ 60,500 J
^ 220
66,330
402
9,515
69
14,164
172
5,940
72
1,201
18
594
11
7,744
141
3,806
79
6,072
110
6,468
118
563
13
1,422
32
810
18
2,288
52
968
22
1,452
23
2,370
70
1,960
60
2,105
64
759
23
2,135
65
931
28
898
27
634
19
2,277
69
765
28
160
6
605
22
1,727
63
615
28
387
18
1,126 •
51
519
22
1,861
85
1,008
46
550
25
695
32
363
22
512
31
116
7
297
18
142
9
314
19
426
26
73
5
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204 Norwood 3.30
200 Plaza 3.30
161 Robinson 3.30
44 Troy 3.30
42 Unionville 3.30
146 Wilmore 3.30
80 Bethlehem 2.20
46 Brainard 2.20
77 Camden 2.20
63 Cameronian 2.20
78 Candor 2.20
87 Indian Trail 2.20
36 Lee Park 2.20
11 Lilesville 2.20
37 Locust 2.20
120 Macedonia 2.20
82 Mark's Creek 2.20
72 Mt. Carmel 2.20
55 North Charlotte 2.20
50 Pageland 2.20
5 Palestine 2.20
26 Peachland 2.20
48 Polkton 2.20
18 Porter 2.20
66 Roberdell 2.20
40 Rourk's Chapel 2.20
88 Siler 2.20
37 Six Mile Creek 2.20
40 Stevenson 2.20
16 Stanfield 2.20
13 Star 2.20
43 Turner 2.20
25 Wadeville 2.20
115 Walkersville L 2.20
149 Mulberry 1.34
25 Allen 1.10
60 Altan 1.10
35 Bethany 1.10
50 Beulah 1.10
80 Ellerbe 1.10
34 McLean's Memorial 1.10
35 Midland 1.10
20 Midway 1.10
28 Morgan Memorial 1.10
15 Oakboro 1.10
49 Rehoboth 1.10
56 Salem 1.10
33 Tabernacle 1.10
15,711 Total $222,762 $3,150
The Thanksgiving Offering and the Sunday School Offerings for
Barium Springs are to be over and above the 7^% in the budget. It
takes just about twice as much to pay the expenses of the Orphanage as
the amount assigned in the Budget.
673
41
660
40
531
32
145
9
139
8
482
30
176
16
101
9
169
15
139
13
172
17
191
17
79
7
24
2
81
7
264
24
180
16
158
14
121
11
110
10
11
1
57
5
106
10
40
4
145
13
88
8
194
18
81
8
88
8
35
3
29
3
95
9
55
5
253
23
200
30
28
5
66
12
39
7
39
10
55
16
88
7
37
•7
/
27
4
31
6
17
3
54
10
62
11
36
7
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NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF TREASURERS
ZZ.Z Foreign Missions — Mr. Edwin F. Willis, Box 330, Nashville,
Tenn.
PerCt. Assembly Causes:
16. Assembly's Home Missions — Mr. A. N. Sharpe, 1522 Hurt Bldg.,
Atlanta, Ga.
7.5 Christian Education and Ministerial Relief — Mr. John Stites, 5th
and Market Sts., Louisville, Ky.
2. Publication and Sunday School Work— Mr. R. E. Magill, 6-8 N.
Sixth St., Richmond, Va.
.6 Bible Cause — Mr. Gilbert Darlington, Bible House, New York
City.
.6 Assembly's Training School — Mr. Geo. W. Call, Union Bank,
Richmond, Va.
Synod's Causes:
7.5 Synod's Home Missions — Rev. E. E. Gillespie, D.D., Greens-
boro, N. C
7.5 Barium Springs Orphanage — Mr. J. B. Johnston, Barium Springs,
N. C.
8.7 Schools and Colleges — Rev. E. E. Gillespie, D.D., Greensboro, N. C.
1.3 Union Theological Seminary — Mr. Wm. R. Miller, Union Theo-
logical Seminary, Richmond, Va.
Presbytery's Causes:
15. Presbytery's Home Missions— Mr. W. E. Price, 30 W. Fifth St.,
Charlotte, N. C.
Benevolent Treasurer for the Presbytery:
Mr. W. E. Price, 30 W. Fifth St., Charlotte, N. C.
PRESBYTERIAL TAX is 20 cents per member as fixed by Presby-
tery at Candor Church, October 23, 1928.
ALL BENEVOLENT FUNDS should be remitted MONTHLY
direct to the treasurers or to the Benevolent Fund Treasurer of the Pres-
bytery, Mr. W. E. Price, 30 W. Fifth St., Charlotte, N. C.
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INDEX
Adjourned Meeting— July 3, 1928 3
Adjourned Meeting — July 16, 1928 6
Adjourned Meeting — September 3, 1928 8
Alexander, T R., Received 14
Amendments Book of Church Order 20
Assembly's Minutes (Report) 22
Assessment (Report of Presbyterial Tax) 24
Bible Cause (Report) 24
Brown, L. W., Dismissed to Florida 11
Called Meeting at Maxton 10
Christian Education (Report) 26
Calls and Supplies 33
Chedester, W. P., to Labor out of Presbytery 33
Directory Inside Front and Back Covers
Dillard, E. A., Received 10
Dillard, E. A., Installed 16
Evangelism (Report) 16
Five-Year Summary of Presbytery 34
Foreign Missions Report 21
Frazer, W. H., Address on Queens College 27
Gurney, H. E., Pastorate Dissolved 8
Gilbert, H. A., Candidate Received 8
Huneycutt Pastorate at Oakboro and Locust Dissolved 3
Home Missions 30
Hamiter, W. S., to Labor Out of Presbytery 13
Leadership Training 23
Leave of Absence (Report) Z'^^
Ligon, J. F., Dismissed to Tennessee 7
Long, C. G., Elected Temporary Clerk 13
Lyerly, S. B., Elected Moderator 13
McGeachy, A.A., Memorial 12
Midway Church Organized 20
Macedonia, Presbytery Meeting 2^
Queens College Report Referred 15
Sabbath and Family Religion 28
Schools and Colleges, Referred 27
Stewardship Report 17
Stewardship Askings 35
Family Religion (Report) 28
Thomas, W. G., Examined by Presbytery 3
Thomas, W. G., ordained and installed 6
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 39
Treasurer's Report 27
Trustees' Report i^
Young People's Work (Report of Ad Interim Committee) 2Q
Young People's Conference at Queens College 29
(Continued from inside front cover)
14. Men's Work— P. S. Gilchrist, C P. Brown, H. J. Spencer, J. M.
Oldham, J. P. Marsh, M. E. Trotter, J. M. Harris.
15. Sessional Records— W. T. Smith. R. S. Burwell, Q. N. Huneycu'.t,
and five elders.
16. Examinations:
(i) Experimental Piet}^ — The Moderator.
(2) Academic Studies — R. W. Culbertson.
(3) Languages— Latin Thesis and Greek Exegesis — C. W. Som-
merville, J. W. Grier.
(4) Natural and Exact Sciences — H. E. Gurney, C. H. Little.
(5) Mental and Moral Philosophy, Logic and Rhetoric— W. H.
Frazer, W. B. S. Chandler.
(6) Theology— A. S. Johnson, W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., C. H. Rowan.
(7) Church History— J. M. Walker, W. H. Matheson.
(8) Church Government and Sacraments — M. E. Peabody, R. S.
Burwell.
TRUSTEES OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
1. Davidson — R. A. Dunn, H. N. Pharr — Terms expire 1932; C. R.
Nisbet, J. P. Matheson, W. H. Belk — Terms expire 1930.
2. Queens— Mrs. C. C. Hook, T. M. Glasgow, J. L. Choate, P. S.
Gilchrist — Terms expire 1931 ; J. Arthur Henderson, E. E. Jones.
A. J. Crowell — Terms expire 1929; E. A. McCausland, J. W. Mc-
Clung, Hunter Marshall — Terms expire 1930.
3. Albemarle — M. J. Harris, A. C. Huneycutt, A. E. McCausland —
Terms expire 1931 ; R. J. Mcllwain, F. S. Neal, W. H. Belk —
Terms expire 1929; J. M. Harry, J. W. Stork, J. H. McCrae, J. M.
Morrow, Mrs. W. E. Milton, Lynn R. Walker — Terms expire
1930.
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of
Mecklenburg
Presbytery
119th STATED SESSION
Steele Creek Church
April 9, 10, 11, 1929
ADJOURNED MEETINGS
At First Church, Charlotte, N. C.
Dec. 3, 1928, Feb. 4, 1929, May 6, 1929, May 31, 1929
CALLED MEETING
Charlotte, N. C.
Jan. 25, 1929
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DIRECTORY
Rev. W. H. Frazer, Moderator Charlotte, N. C.
Rev. J. G. Garth, Stated Clerk Charlotte, N. C.
Rev. J. W. Stork, Permanent Clerk Mt. Gilead, N. C.
Trustees of Presbytery — H. C. Alexander, Hunter Marshall, Jr., J. L.
Choate.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Presbytery's Home Missions — J. M. Walker, C. G. Long, W. B. S.
Chandler, C. H. Rowan, Lynn R. Walker, C. H. Little, F. S. Neal,
W. H. Belk, T. J. Smith, C. P. Brown, W. E. Price, Dr. R. H.
Lafferty, J. F. Hardie.
PERMANENT COMMITTEES
1. Foreign Missions — E. G. Gammon, C. G. Long, W. L. Wallis,
J. Arthur Henderson, M. B. Spier.
2. Assembly's Home Missions — J. F. Hardie, C. H. Little, A. S.
Anderson, Jno. B. Ross.
3. Christian Education and Ministerial Relief— J. W. Grier, W. H.
Matheson, J. W. McClung, J. M. Oldham.
4. Religious Education — General Chairman : S. B. Lyerly.
(i) Children's Division: W. M. Wilcox, W. E. Price.
(2) Young People's Division : E. A. Dillard, M. E. Peabody, F. H.
Bierman.
(3) Sunday School Extension : J. G. Garth, H. J. Spencer.
(4) Leadership Training: B. F. Yandell, G. M. Beaty, Dr. R. H.
Lafferty.
5. Bible Cause— S. B. Lyerly, J. W. Stork.
6. Synod's Home Missions— L E. Wallace, A. L. McDuffie, C. H.
Caldwell, D. S. Monteith.
7. Orphans* Home— W. H. Johnston, R. W. Culbertson, Wm.
Anderson, W. A. Jamison.
8. Schools and Colleges— C. R. Nisbet, L E. Wallace, B. F. Yandell,
J. R. Bridges, Beatty Faires, G. M. Rose, Jr.
(Continued on back inside cover)
.MINUTES
of
Mecklenburg
Presbytery
119th STATED SESSION
Steele Creek Church
April 9, 10, 11, 1929
ADJOURNED MEETINGS
At First Church, Charlotte, N. C.
Dec. 3, 1928, Feb. 4,1929, May 6, 1929, May 31, 1929
CALLED MEETING
Charlotte, N. C.
Jan. 25, 1929
PRESS OF
PRESBYTERIAN STANDARD
PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
ADJOURNED MEETING
Charlotte^ First Church, December 3, 1928.
Presbytery met in adjourned session at First Presbyte-
rian Church, Charlotte, December 31, 1928, and was called
to order by Rev. S. B. Lyerly, Moderator, and opened with
prayer by Rev. J. W. Grier.
ROLL
Ministers: S. B. Lyerly, J. G. Garth, J. M. Walker, B. F.
Yandell, R. S. Burwell, C R. Nisbet, C E. White, A. S.
Johnston, J. R. Bridges, W. T. Smith, A. A. Walker, P. W.
Wilson, J. C. Grier, J. F. Hardie, S. B. McLean, A. R. Shaw,
C. G. Long, W. H. Frazer, R. W. Culbertson, E. C. Gammon,
Q. N. Huneycutt, W. H. Johnston, A. F. Doty, G. C. Hunt-
ington, C. C. Beam, W. H. Matheson.
Elders: W. R. Long, Sugaw Creek; J. M. Miller, Phila-
delphia; Jno. Huck, Amity; S. M. Alexander, McGee ; J. W.
Davenport, Paw Creek; J. M. Oldham, First Church; Dr.
Alexander Graham, Second Church.
A quorum being found present the Presbytery pro-
ceeded to business.
Rev. S. B. McLean was selected Temporary Clerk.
A request from Hopewell Church for the services of Dr.
C. W. Sommerville as stated supply until spring meeting of
Presbytery was granted.
A communication from Dr. S. L. Morris was read, ask-
ing for information as to the action of the Presbytery in
regard to Fraternal Relations with the United Presbyterian
Church. Action was deferred until spring meeting of Pres-
bytery.
Action was also deferred until spring meeting of Presby-
tery on the question of the Ministers' Annuity Fund.
Mr. J. M. Oldham was added to the Committee of Chris-
tian Education and Ministerial Relief.
Rev. J. M. Blain, of East Hanover Presbytery, and Rev.
J. E. Guthrie, of Concord Presbytery, Rev. Geo. F. Robert-
son of Holston Presbytery, and Rev. J. E. Berryhill, of
Kings Mountain Presbytery were introduced to the Presby-
tery and invited to sit as visiting brethren.
4 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
A certificate of dismission from Brazos Presbytery for
Rev. Jas. F. Hardie, D.D., was presented, and after due ex-
amination, Dr. Hardie was received into the Presbytery,
when he shall have signed the covenant.
The call of the Second Presbyterian Church, of Char-
lotte, was placed in the hands of Dr. Hardie, who signified
his acceptance of the call.
The following commission for the installation of Dr.
Hardie was appointed:
Dr. J. R. Bridges to preside ; Dr. Chas. R. Nisbet to
preach the sermon ; Dr. A. S. Johnson to charge the pastor ;
Dr. W. H. Frazer to charge the congregation, and the fol-
lowing elders : Mr. W. A. Jamison, of West Avenue ; Mr.
Thomas Glasgow, of Myers Park.
Sunday, December 9, 1928 at 4 :30 p. m. was fixed as the
time and the Second Presbyterian Church as the place for
the installation.
A resolution was read and received as information
from the Presbytery of Brazos testifying as to the high
character and service of Dr. Hardie.
It was ordered that when Presbytery adjourn today, it
adjourn to meet here on February 4th, at 10 a. m. for the
purpose of engaging in a season of intercession for the di-
vine blessing on the Church at large and on this Presbytery,
for its work, and especially with regard to the Every Mem-
ber Canvass on March 10th, and that Rev. S. B. McLean,
the Secretary of Stewardship, be in charge of the meeting.
Dr. C. R. Nisbet reported for Committee on Schools and
Colleges that the condition of Albemarle School is such that
very careful attention to its affairs is needed and he recom-
mended that this committee be enlarged in order that neces-
sary attention be given or that a separate committee be
appointed to collaborate with this committee. It was so
ordered and the following were appointed :
Revs. J. M. Walker, E. G. Gammon, W. H. Johnston,
and elders J. W. Davenport, of Paw Creek; W. A. Mc-
Auly, Mt. Gilead.
The minutes were read and approved and Presbytery
adjourned with prayer.
S. B. McLEAN, Temporary Qerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 5
CALLED MEETING
Charlotte, N. C, January 25, 1929.^
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in called session in First
Presbyterian Church, at 11 :30 a. m., January 25, 1929.
ROLL
Ministers: A. R. Shaw, E. G. Gammon, C. R. Nisbet,
W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., J. W. Grier, J. C. Grier, T- M. Walker,
S. B. Lyerly, W. H. Johnston, A. A. Walker S. B. McLean,
W. H. Matheson, M. E. Peabody, J. G. Garth, E. A. Dillard,
A. F. Doty, J. F. Hardie, B. F. Yandell, P. W. Wilson.
Elders: Geo. F. Dunn, West Avenue; W. A. Rogers,
Pineville ; J. W. Davenport, Paw^ Creek.
A quorum was found to be present and opened with
prayer by Dr. A. R. Shaw.
Rev. S. B. Lyerly presided.
The call for meeting was then read as follows :
The Constitutional requirements having been met, I
hereby call Mecklenburg Presbytery to meet in called ses-
sion for the following business :
1. To act on the request of Rev. Parks W. Wilson for
the dissolution of the pastorate at West Avenue Church,
Charlotte, N. C
2. To dismiss Mr. Wilson to the Presbytery of Mem-
phis if the way is clear.
3. To take action on any business arising out of the
above.
. Time and place of called meeting. First Presbyterian
Church, Charlotte, N. C, Friday, January 25, at 11 :?>0 a. m
Rev. M. E. Peabody was chosen as Temporary Clerk.
Rev. Parks W. Wilson tendered his resignation and ask-
ed for dissolution of the pastoral relation between him and
the West Avenue Church.
A motion was made that request be granted.
Mr. Wilson moved that Mr. Johnson, of the Committee
6 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
appointed to represent the congregation, be given the priv-
ilige of floor, which was granted.
The congregation reported through Mr. Geo. Dunn that
the Church refused to unite in the request to Presbytery.
Mr. Johnson, having been given the privilege of the floor,
presented the Church's objections in the form of a petition
to Presbytery, which was read.
Upon motion the privilege of the floor was granted to
any of the Church members who might wish to speak.
After hearing discussions during which the devotion of
both pastor and people was beautifully revealed, Presbytery
voted to grant the request, after tributes had been paid by
the brethren.
Upon motion Mr. Wilson's request for dismission to
Memphis Presbytery was granted.
Mr. Wilson, as retiring Chairman of Young People's
Work, suggested Rev. E. A. Dillard to succeed him.
Upon motion Mr. Dillard was appointed.
After the reading of the minutes, Presbytery adjourned
with prayer.
M. E. PEABODY, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY . 7
ADJOURNED MEETING
Charlotte, N. C, February 4, 1929.
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in First Presbyterian
Church at 10 a. m., and a quorum was found present.
ROLL
Ministers: J. R. Bridges, A. R. Shaw, S. B. McLean,
S. B. Lyerly, J. M. Walker, C. E. White, E. A. Dillard, W. H.
Matheson, R. W. Culbertson, G. C. Huntington, W. H.
Johnston, J. W. Grier, C. R. Nisbet, W. T. Smith, H. E.
Gurney, M. E. Peabody, W. H. Frazer, A. S. Johnson, E. G.
Gammon, C. W. Sommerville, R. S. Burwell, J. C. Grier,
T. H. Mitchell, T. R. Alexander, J. R. Bridges.
Elders: A. W. Potts, Banks ; W. L. Wallis, Tenth Ave-
nue ; J. B. Spillman, Second Presbyterian ; W. R. Long,
Sugaw Creek; E. M. Neel, Steele Creek.
Moderator S. B. Lyerly called meeting to order and it
was opened with prayer by Rev. C. H. Rowan.
The Moderator then appointed Rev. M. E. Peabody
Temporary Clerk.
Meeting was then turned over to Rev. S. B. McLean,
Secretary of Stewardship, to enter upon a season of prayer.
After reading appropriate passages of scripture he called
upon Dr. E. E. Gillespie, of Greensboro, and Rev. R. W.
Culbertson to lead in prayer.
An address was then delivered by Rev. E. A. Dillard on
the Principles of Stewardship, after which he led the body
in prayer.
After remarks by Mr. McLean upon the splendid address
to which we had listened and the significance and blessed-
ness of such a meeting as this, the body was led in prayer
by Elders Spillman and Potts, and Rev. G. C. Huntington.
Dr. E. E. Gillespie was then presented and delivered a
stirring address upon God's great purpose and plan for the
evangelization of the world, after which the meeting was
led in prayer by Dr. W. H. Frazer, Rev. J. W. Grier, and
Dr. A. R. Shaw.
8 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
"When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" was then sung, led
by Mr. W. R. Long.
"The Cause and Cure of the Delinquency in Benevo-
lences" was then presented by Rev. J. M. Walker.
After this moving address and a heart-searching talk by
the chairman, Presbytery was led in prayer by Mr. Peabody,
Dr. Bridges, and Dr. Nisbet.
Dr. Lacy L. Little was then presented as one fresh from
the foreign field. He presented "The Coming of the King-
dom" in his own attractive and forceful way.
The body was then called upon to engage in a season of
voluntary prayer in the kneeling posture.
The body was led in singing "Seal Us, Oh Holy Spirit,"
by Mr. Spillman, after which Dr. A. S. Johnson led us
in prayer.
In the absence of Dr. J. F. Hardie, who was to have
spoken on "Abounding in This Grace Also," the chair called
for voluntary remarks by any present.
Dr. Johnson responded and suggested "Consecration" as
being the solution of our problem.
Dr. Frazer was then called upon and stressed very force-
fully the need of co-operation in all the phases of the
Church's efforts as necessary for advancement along all
lines.
Dr. Shaw presented the superior wealth of our nation
to the other nations.
Upon motion we returned to the regular business of
Presbytery.
The Commission to install Rev. J. F. Hardie, D.D., at
Second Church, Charlotte, reported the installation as tak-
ing place, December 9th.
Request was made to continue the supply of Rev. A. H.
Frazer at McGee. Upon motion this was granted.
A rising vote of thanks was given for the splendid ad-
dresses listened to, and the appreciation of the presence
and addresses of our visitors.
Closed with prayer by Moderator.
M. E. PEABODY, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
STATED SPRING MEETING
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in 119th Stated Session at
Steel Creek Church, Tuesday, April 9, 1929, at 8 p. m. and
was opened with a sermon by the retiring Moderator Rev.
S. B. Lyerly from Mark 16: 15.
After the sermon the communion service was conducted
by Rev. J. F. Hardie, D.D., and Rev. C. G. Long.
The roll was called and the following were found pres-
ent :
ROLL
Ministers: J. R. Bridges, G. C. Huntington, A. R. Shaw,
J. W. Grier, R. J. Mcllwaine, C. H. Little, R. S. Burwell, A.
S. Johnson, C. E. White, R. W. Culbertson, J. G. Garth, J.
W. Stork, J. M. Walker, W. C. Underwood, W. H. Frazer,
W. B. Mcllwaine, S. B. Lyerly, T. F. Huneycutt, M. E.
Peabody, W. B. S. Chandler, W. T. Smith, A. A. Walker,
L E. Wallace, C. G. Long, C. W. Sommerville, S. B. McLean,
Lynn R. Walker, W. H. Johnston, J. C. McGehee, C. H.
Rowan, T. M. Stribling, B. F. Yandell, J. A. Caligan, A. L.
McDuffie, W. H. Matheson, E. G. Gammon, C. R. Nisbet,
T. H. Mitchell, W. C. Copeland, A. F. Doty, J. C. Grier,
W. G. Thomas, E. A. Dillard, T. R. Alexander, J. F. Hardie.
Elders: R. W. Elliott, Altan; E. A. Morrison, Allen;
A. D. Campbell, Amity; O. W. Potts, Banks; Ray Clontz,
Bethlehem; W. E. Price, Caldwell Memorial; H. T. Bald-
win, Cameronian ; L. R. Lisk, Candor; J. N. Herron, Central
Steele Creek ; T. J. Smith, Charlotte First, C M. Strong,
Charlotte Second; T. M. Davis, Cook's Memorial; J. L
Procter, Cornelius ; J. L Efird, EUerbe ; T. H. Rowan, Ham-
let, J. G. McElroy, Hopewell, J. L. Choate, Huntersville ;
A. F. Doty, Lee Park ; J. C. Smith, Marshville, T. M. Alex-
ander, McGee; W. H. Belk, Monroe First; T. W. Smith,
Morgan Memorial, R. L. Martin, Mt. Gilead ; H. G. Rhyne,
Mulberry; Hamilton McKay, Myers Park; J. A. Newell,
Newells; H. M. Nicholson, North Charlotte; J. L Camp-
bell, Norwood; F. C. Efird, Oakboro ; D. E. Clark, Page-
land; L. M. Torrence, Paw Creek; W. B. Blount, Plaza;
J. M. Miller, Philadelphia ; J. M. Caruthers, Pineville ; J. L.
Currence, Pleasant Hill ; Dr. H. Q. Alexander, Providence ;
R. O. Robinson, Seversville ; J. V. Brown, Sharon ; E. A.
10 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
Norris, Siler ; R. C. Freeman, Steele Creek ; N. C. White,
St. Paul ; C H. Caldwell, Sugaw Creek ; P. J. C. Efird, Tab-
ernacle ; R. W. Mitchell, Tenth Avenue; W. R. Price.
Thomasboro ; C. A. Bland, Wadesboro ; Henry McWhirter,
Walkersville ; J. W. McCain, Waxhaw ; W. A. Jamison,
West Avenue ; R. G. Spratt, Westminster ; W. A. Howie,
Williams Memorial; S. B, Porter, Wilmore.
Rev. W. H. Frazer, D.D., was nominated for Moder-
ator and elected by acclamation.
Rev. C. G. Long was elected temporary clerk by accla-
mation.
Ruling Elder J. W. McCain, of Waxhaw, presented the
Moderator with a gavel made of walnut, hickory and cedar
from historic trees near Waxhaw. Mr. McCain also pre-
sented the Presbytery with badges marked for the 119th
Stated Meeting.
The Committee on Arrangements rendered the follow-
ing report, which was adopted :
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Your committee would recommend the following hours for ses-
sions of Presbytery :
Meet at 9:30 a. m. Spend 20 minutes in devotional services.
Recess at 12:30 for dinner. Reconvene at 2 p. m. and recess at 5.
Assemble at 8 p. m. and adjourn at will.
That on Wednesday at 11 '.30 we hear the Presbyterial sermon by
Dr. Chas. R. Nisbet. Wednesday night conduct a popular meeting
in the interest of Presbytery's Home Missions. On Thursday at
11:30 a. m. Foreign Missions.
For Wednesday morning's devotional Rev. C. H. Rowan and on
Thursday Rev. J. C. Grier.
J. M. WALKER, Chairman.
R. C FREEMAN.
Adjournment was taken until 9 :30 a. m. and the bene-
diction was pronounced by the Moderator.
Wednesday Morning
Presbytery re-convened at 9':30 a. m. with devotional
exercises conducted by Rev. C. H. Rowan.
The Minutes of yesterday's session were read and ap-
proved.
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MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
Revs. W. O. Sample of Granville Presbytery, Geo. F.
Robertson of Holston Presbytery, and J. B. Reily of El
Paso Presbytery, were introduced and invited to sit as
visiting brethren.
Various communications v^ere read and referred to the
proper committees.
The Moderator read the following Standing Com-
mittees :
STANDING COMMITTEES
Devotianal Exercises: J. M. Walker, R. C. Freeman,
J. N. Herron.
Bills and Overtures: S. B, Lyerly, C. H. Rowan, C. W.
Sommerville, Alexander Graham, W. H. Belk.
Judicial Committee: S. B. McLean, Lynn R. Walker,
L E. Wallace, H. W. McKay, J. T. Campbell.
Presbytery's Home Missions: Chas. R. Nisbet, E. A.
Dillard, N. C. White, J. W. McCain.
Calls and Supplies: J. F. Hardie, T. R. Alexander, J. C.
Grier, T. H. Rowan, L T. Efird.
Records of Presbytery: W. T. Smith, R. S. Bur well, Q.
N. Huneycutt, R. J. Mcllwaine, G. C. Huntington, W. C Un-
derwood, M.*E. Peabody, A. L. McDuffie, W. H. Matheson,
S. M. Alexander, Ray Klontz, H. G. Rhyne, R. L. Martin,
H. M. Nicholson, L. M. Torrance, W. E. Howie, W. E. Por-
ter, Henry McWhorter.
Leave of Absence: R. W. Culbertson, J. W. Grier, H. T.
Baldwin.
Minutes of Synod: N. C. White, W. H. Johnston, R. W.
Elliott, R. J. Mcllwaine.
Presbytery Assessments: E. G. Gammon, T. M. Strib-
ling, J. C. McGehee, W. E. Price, H. G. Alexander, R. W.
Mitchell, R. O. Robinson, W. A. Jamieson, W. R. Price.
Nominations: B. F. Yandell, J. G. Garth, T. J. Smith, R.
G. Spratt, A. F. Doty. Chairman is the Moderator.
Thanks: W. B. Mcllwaine, T. H. Mitchell, J. R. Kerns.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
The Stated Clerk reported the deposit of Presbytery's
records with the Historical Foundation at Montreat, as
ordered by Presbytery at the fall meeting. The receipt of
the records is noted in the following letter :
REPORT OF HISTORICAL FOUNDATION
Rev. J. G. Garth, Stated Clerk,
Mecklenburg Presbytery,
Charlotte, N. C. , . •
My dear Mr. Garth :
I beg to acknowledge the receipt this date of the following
records, minutes, and papers as deposited by Mecklenburg Presby-
tery with the Historical Foundation of the Presbyterian and Re-
formed Churches :
Vol. I— October i6, 1869-March 17, 1876.
Vol. II— May 18, 1876-December 12, 1882.
Vol. Ill— May 2, 1883-December 21, 1887.
Vol. IV— April II, 1888-July 19, 1893.
Vol. V — September 7, 1893-February 11, 1897.
Vol. VI— April 9, 1897-May 19, 1902.
Vol. VII— June 5, 1902-July 8, 1907.
Vol. VIII — September 17, 1907— August 12, 191 1.
Vol. IX — September 5, 1911-June 26, 1913.
Vol. — April, 1913-September, 1919 (printed, bound).
Vol. — November, 1919-December 7, 1925 (printed, bound).
5 notebooks of historical data kept by the Stated Clerk, Rev.
R. Z. Johnston, which we have numbered respectively, i, 2,
3, 4, 5.
5 bundles of records in the case of Rev. D. P. Robinson, 1883-
1884, with appeal.
I bundle relative to Sharon Church before Commission of Meck-
lenburg Presbytery, June 7, 1927.
I bundle papers in case of Asheville difficulties, 1874.
I bundle papers in case of Swannanoa, December 11, 1871.
I bundle papers in case of W. W. Reid, 1896.
I bundle papers Wadesboro, November 2, 1877.
I bundle papers in re J. T. Plunket, 1880.
I paper, organization Polkton, June 15, 1883.
I Vol. minutes Forest Church, 1882-1887.
All the above have been listed, entered on our deposit record
book, and will be catalogued.
Very sincerely yours,
S. M. TENNEY, Curator.
Montreat, January 7, 1929.
The resignation of Rev. S. B. McLean as chairman and
secretary of stewardship of the Presbytery was accepted
with a rising- vote to indicate Presbytery's appreciation of
his efficient services.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 13
The first order of the day for Thursday morning was
fixed for a consideration of the Ministers' Annuity Fund.
Candidates M. B. Prince, from Piedmont Presbytery,
J. S. McFall, from Piedmont Presbytery, and W. C. Cooper,
from Atlanta Presbytery were received into the Presbytery.
These three candidates applied for licensure, and on
motion Presbytery proceeded with their examination.
Their college diplomas were accepted in lieu of exami-
nations on Natural Sciences, Logic and Rhetoric and Mental
and Moral Philosophy.
Their Seminary courses were accepted in lieu of exami-
nation on Church History and the Original Languages, with
the exception of Mr. Cooper, who, not having pursued
courses in the Original Languages, was accepted under the
extraordinary clause.
Dr. C. W. Sommerville conducted the examination on
Theology, which was sustained.
The order of the day having arrived, the examination
was suspended until first order of the afternoon.
A five-minute recess was taken before hearing the
Presbyterial sermon.
Presbytery heard with much interest the Presbyterial
sermon by Dr. C. R. Nisbet on the Atonement.
Mr. Thomas Mcllwaine Davis, a member of the Siler
Church, presented a testimonial from the Session of the
Church and asked to be received as a candidate for the
ministry. The Moderator examined him as to his personal
piety and purpose for seeking the ministry. The examina-
tion was sustained. After he had answered favorably the
Constitutional questions, a charge was given by the Mod-
erator. Following a prayer he was enrolled as a candidate.
Presbytery took recess for lunch to reconvene at 2 p. m.
Wednesday Afternoon
Presbytery reconvened, and resumed the examination of
Candidates Prince, Cooper and McFall.
They were examined on experimental religion and mo-
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tives for seeking the gospel ministry by the Moderator
which was sustained as satisfactory. The examination on
Church Government was sustained as satisfactory. The ex-
amination on the Sacraments was also sustained as satisfac-
tory.
These young brethren then preached their trial sermons.
M. B. Prince preached from Jno. 20: 21.
W. C. Cooper preached from Jno. 14:13.
J. S. McFall preached from Jno. 3:3:.
The Committees reported favorably on the Theses,
Exigeses, and Popular Lectures and they were accepted
as satisfactory.
The Sermons were also accepted as satisfactory.
The examinations, as a whole, were sustained.
They were then duly licensed by answering the Consti-
tutional questions as contained in the Book of Church Or-
der, and after a prayer they were enrolled by Presbytery
as licentiates, or probationers for the gospel ministry.
Dr. L. R. Walker offered his resignation as chairman
of the Committee on Men's and Women's Societies which
was accepted.
Presbytery voted to divide the Men's and Women's
Work Committee and form two committees instead of one.
Rev. A. T. Taylor, of Asheville Presbytery, after satis-
factory examinations on personal piety, Theology, and
Church Government, was received into the Presbytery af-
ter signing the Covenant.
The calls from the Oakboro, Locust, and Stanfield
churches for the services of W. C. Cooper, and from Peach-
land and Polkton churches for the services of M. B. Prince,
and from Morven, Lilesville, and Camden for the services
of J. S. McFall were all found in order and were placed in
their hands.
The matter of time, place, and personnel of the ordina-
tion and installation Commissions were left in the hands
of these gentlemen to be reported to Presbytery later.
The election of Commissioners to the General Assembly
was taken up and the following ministers and elders were
elected:
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COMMISSIONERS TO THE ASSEMBLY
Ministers: Principals — C. H. Rowan, S. B. McLean,
A. A. Walker, and W. B. Mcllwaine. Alternates — L. R.
Walker, A. R. Shaw, C. R. Nisbet, and M. E. Peabody.
Elders: Principals— John A. McAulay, N. C. White, T. B.
Spratt, and T. H. Rowan. Alternates— T. J. Smith, Dr.
C. M. Strong, P. J. C. Efird, and J. L. Choate.
The report of the treasurer of Presbyterial Tax was
submitted and adopted.
TREASURER'S REPORT— 1928-29
J. G. Garth, Stated Clerk and Treasurer
Balance on hand last April $ 874.50
Received from Churches _. 2,981.64
Resources handled for year 3,856.14
Less Candor check charged ofif twice 34.00
Total $ 3,822.14
Checks, per list tallying with bank statements $ 2,532.34
Balance on hand $ 1,323.80
Accounts unpaid for lack of funds :
Synod's Tax, balance $ 135-66
W. E. Price, Treasurer 100.00
Historical Tax 155-84
$ 491.40
1928-1929 CHECKS ISSUED AS PER STUBBS
I. — Apr. 10 — J. F. Jamison $ 25.00
2. — Apr. 23 — J. G. Garth, cash, 1-4 salary 50.00
3. — ^Apr. 26— J. D. Leslie, treasurer 1,198.39
4. — May I — R. E. Magill, treasurer 32.75
5. — May 15 — Presbyterian Standard 200.00
5 1-2. — May 5 — VonBoeckman— Statistical Tables 9.00
6. — ^June 9 — J. D. Leslie, treasurer 5.35
7. — June 14 — Presbyterian Standard 56.20
8. — June 23 — Parks W. Wilson — Vacation Bible Schools 150.00
8 1-2 — June 25 — Cash, stated clerk salary 50.00
9. — Aug. 10— Cash, D. V. B. S. 100.00
10. — Aug. 16 — Cash, D. V. B. S. 150.00
10 1-2. — Aug. 10 — Presbyterian Standard 72.25
II. — Oct. 4 — Presbyterian Standard 8.75
12. — Oct. 4— J. G. Garth, clerk salary 50.00
13. — Oct. 5 — R. A. McLeod, Synod 100.00
14. — Oct. 15 — Cash, postage 5.00
15. — Oct. 19 — Presbyterian Standard 12.75
16. — Oct. 23 — J. W. Stork — Permanent Clerk, salary 30.00
17- — Dec. 29 — Presbyterian Standard i35-90
18. — Jan. 30 — Cash, J. G. Garth, salary 50.00
19. — Mar. 22 — W. E. Price, printing 7.00
Candor checks charged off 34.00
$ 2,532.34
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ACCOUNTS PAID 1928-1929
April 10-March 22
Assembly's Dues $ 1,203.74
Report Blanks s 32.75
Printing Minutes 383-35
Treasurer's Book (W. E. Price) 60.00
Job Printing _ 58.50
Synod's dues in part 100.00
Postage 5.00
Auditors, Jamison and Thomas 25.00
Daily Vacation Bible School 400.00
Candor checks charged off 34.00
Stated Clerk salary 200.00
Permanent Clerk Salary 30.00
$ 2,532.34
This report audited and found correct.
Signed :
J. F. JAMISON, Auditor.
The report of the treasurer of Benevolence for the
Presbytery was submitted and adopted.
FINANCIAL REPORT
W. E. Price, Treasurer of Benevolences Mecklenburg Presbytery
March 30, 1929
Causes Receipts Disbursements Cr. Bal.
Presby. Home Missions
Cr. Bal. last year $ 3,658.59,
Receipts, 1929 20,451.36
$24,209.95
$20,522.62
8,42395
8,423.95
2,059.35
4,032.83
1,959-65
1,956.43
2,059-35
3,032.83
1,959-65
1,956.43
2,417.41
611.08
2,417.41
611.08
172.51
172.51
159-94
159-94
224.50
50.00
1.40
1.40
71.00
71.00
$ 3,587-33
Foreign Missions
Barium Springs Orphanage..
Assembly's Home Missions...
Synod's Home Missions
Chris. Edu. & Min. Relief
Schools and Colleges
S. S. Extension
Bible
Training School
Church and Manse Erection.. 224.50 50.00 174.50
Presbyterian Standard
Presbyterial Tax
$46,200.00 $42,437.17 $ 3,761.83
Respectfully submitted,
W. E. PRICE, Treasurer.
We hereby certify that we have carefully checked the books of
W. E. Price, Treasurer of Mecklenburg Presbytery, and find same
correct as per above statement.
Signed:
J. F. JAMISON, Auditor.
J. L. WILLIAMSON, Auditor.
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Mr. W. E. Price, treasurer of Benevolences for Presby-
tery, was thanked by the Presbytery for his efficient and
self-sacrificial labors in the interests of the Kingdom.
The following report of the Committee on Calls and
Supplies was adopted :
CALLS AND SUPPLIES
I. Your Committee on Calls and Supplies respectfully recommend
that the following calls be found in order :
1. For Rev. W. W. Akers, from West Avenue.
2. The calls for Rev. A. T. Taylor from Marston, Mark's Creek,
McLean's Memorial and Rourk's Chapel.
3. For Licientiate J. S. McFall at Morven, Lilesville and Cam-
den.
4. For Licentiate M. B. Prince from Peachland and Polkton.
5. For Licentiate W. C. Cooper at Oakboro, Stanfield and Locust.
6. For Rev. John B, Reily, from Roberdell, Cameronian, Mid-
way' and Brainard.
n. The following requests for supply be granted :
1. Rev. W. H. Frazer at Mallard Creek.
2. Rev. M. E. Peabody at Newells.
3. Rev. C. W. Sommerville at Hopwell.
4. Rev. A. H. Frazer at McGee.
IIL The request of the Seversville Church to change the terms
of the call from $2,200 and a manse to $2,400 per year and a manse
be granted.
J. C. GRIER.
T. H. ROWAN.
I. T. EFIRD.
J. F. HARDIE, Chairman:
The following Commission was appointed to install Rev.
A. G. Taylor in the Marston group of churches :
Commission to install Rev. A. F. Taylor as pastor of the
Marston group of churches, the churches being Marston,
Mark's Creek, McQean, and Rourk's Chapel :
Principals : Rev. A. A. Walker, Chairman, D. L. R.
Walker, Rev. W. G. Thomas.
Alternates : Rev. A. F. Doty, T. M. Stribling, R. J. Mc-
Ilwaine.
Elders — Principals : A. W. McKay.
Alternate : W. E. Price.
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The following Commission was appointed to ordain and
install Mr. J. S. McFall in the Morven group of churches :
The commission to ordain and install Mr. J. S. McFall,
Jr., on first Sunday in June :
*Dr. L. R. Walker to preside, preach and propound the
constitutional questions.
Rev. A. A. Walker to charge the pastor.
Rev. T. M. Stribling to charge the people; Ruling Elder
T. H. Rowan.
Alternates respectively to the ministers : Rev. J. A.
Caligan, Rev. W. B. S. Chandler, Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine;
Ruling Elder J. E. McLaughlin to be alternate to the ruling
elder.
Presbytery took recess to reconvene at 8 p. m.
Wednesday Evening
Presbytery reconvened at 8 p. m.
The report of the Nominating Committee was adopted
as follows :
Nominations
Men's Societies : L. R. Walker, I. E. Wallace, A. F. Doty,
J. E. McLaughlin.
Woman's Societies : W. B. Mcllwaine, J. C. Grier, W. B.
S. Chandler, H. J. Spencer, R. G. Spratt.
Executive Committee of Home Missions : J. F, Hardie.
Assembly's Home Missions : J. F. Hardie.
Chairman and Secretary of Stewardship : E. A. Dillard.
McAlister Carson was added to the Board of Trustees of
Queens College.
Mr. J. L. Williamson was elected to the Auditing Com-
mittee in the place of Mr. J. O. Thomas whose health forced
him to resign.
The report on Assembly's Home Missions was adopted
as follows :
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REPORT OF ASSEMBLY'S HOME MISSIONS
During the year ending March 31 the Assembly's Executive Corn-
mittee of Home Missions assisted in the support of 663 Home Mis-
sionaries, who served 722 organized mission enterprises, and carried
the Gospel either as teacher or evangelist to 298 other communities.
Except for the ministry of these heroic men and women, thousands
of human beings on the highways and byways of our country would
never hear the Gospel.
The Assembly's Home Missions represents the advance line of
our denominational progress. Through the service of the Assembly's
Committee nineteen churches and thirty-six Sunday Schools were
organized. Ten churches were brought to self support and fifteen
churches were assisted by loan or donation in erecting houses of
worship. There were 5, 188 additions to the church upon profession
of faith and 2,810 by certificate.
The total receipts, including the special Auxiliary Birthday Gift
of $41,500 for the Negro Nurses' Training School, were $588,008,
which is $9,580 less than the total received in 1928, which included the
special Flood Relief Fund of $29,994.
The regular Home Mission contributions were $546,507, which is
$21,087 less than was received from the same sources in 1928.
The General Assembly has directed that the appropriations for
a current year cannot exceed the average of the actual receipts for
the two preceding calendar years. In obedience to this order of the
Assembly it was necessary to cut $46,572 from last year's appropria-
tions. To reduce appropriations this amount and not still further
injure the work it was impossible to make provision for payment of
the Committee's indebtedness.
In four years, because of the shortage of funds, there has been
a decrease of 165 in the number of enterprises, and a decrease of 160
in the number of workers aided. When this decrease in the work
of Home Missions is considered in the light of the other fact that
Home Mission churches as a class show a larger percentage of gain
upon profession, how long can the Southern Presbyterian Church
survive these losses and continue to lead the denomination in pro-
ductive Evangelism?
It is the judgment of your Committee that there is no agency
doing more for our denominational progress, or one that is more de-
serving of the support of the whole Church than the Assembly's
Home Missions.
The following recommendations are offered :
(i) That Sunday Schools be urged to study Home Missions as
a part of the Church's great missionary responsibility, and that Sun-
day, June 30 be the annual Home Mission Day with a special offer-
ing for Assembly's Home Missions.
(2) That November be assigned as the time for Home Mission
study and preaching in all the churches, and November 17-24 as the
Annual Week of Prayer and Self-Denial for Home Missions.
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(3) That pastors be urged to preach on some phase of Assem-
bly's Home Missions during November, and that Home Mission
topics be used for prayer meeting discussions during Home Mission
month.
Respectfully submitted,
E. A. DILLARD, Chairman.
The Committee on Vacancy and Supply submitted a
report which was docketed to come up tomorrow.
A popular meeting in the interest of Presbytery's Home
Missions was conducted by Rev. J. M. Walker, chairman,
and Rev. A. A. Walker, superintendent, assisted by Revs.
E. G. Gammon, J. W. Stork, W. G. Thomas and Elder
W. E. Price. The report of the Executive Committee of
Home Missions was received and referred to the Standing
Committee on Home Missions.
Presbytery then adjourned until Thursday morning at
9:30,
Thursday Morning
Presbytery reconvened at 9:30 a. m. and was led in
devotional exercises by Rev. J. C. Grier.
The Minutes of Wednesday sessions were read and ap-
proved.
The changes in the terms of the call from the Pleasant
Hill Church for the pastoral services of Rev. R. W. Cul-
bertson were approved by Presbytery, the call to read a
yearly salary of $500.00 instead of $600.00. This was all
done on the initiative of Rev. Mr. Culbertson, who was com-
mended by the Presbytery.
The Committee on Christian Education and Ministerial
Relief submitted the following report which was adopted
as amended:
Your Committee on Christian Education and Ministerial Relief
submits the following report :
We have on our roll 24 candidates for the ministry, most of
whom are in school, doing satisfactory work.
We have one young lady in medical college preparing herself for
services in the foreign field.
During the year ending March 31, there was forwarded from
Mecklenburg Presbytery to our Central Committee at Louisville,
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$9,615.35, which is over $4,000.00 less than the amount contributed the
year before.
Your Committee would call attention to the fact that during the
same time our beneficiaries received more than they did the pre-
ceding year.
The following recommendations are offered :
1. That the Central Committee at Louisville be requested to
make the following appropriations.
Per Month
Mrs. Mary T. Arrowood $25.00
Mrs. Allie W. Cochran 37-50
Mrs. Emma T. Hardin 45-00
Rev. W. S. Hamiter 50.00
Rev. L. H. Query 40.00
Rev. A. H. Temple 42.00
Rev. W. C. Underwood 45-00
Rev. H. E. Gurney 50.00
2. That Presbytery endorses the Ministers' Annuity Fund and
commends it to the churches for their approval.
J. W. GRIER, Chairman.
Mr. J. M. Oldham, an elder of the First Presbyterian
Cburch, of Charlotte, was extended the privileges of the
floor in connection with the discussion of the Ministers'
Annuity Fund. '
The matter of the Ministers' Annuity Fund was dock-
eted for the adjourned meeting of Presbyjtery.
Elders J. M. Oldham, W. E. Price and J. L. Choate
were continued as a special committee to study and advise
on the whole matter of this Annuity Fund.
Mr. Oldham was given a rising vote of thanks for his
assistance to an understanding of the Annuity Fund.
A five-minute recess was taken before discussing the
Order of the day.
The report of the Foreign Missions Committee was re-
ceived as information and the following recommendations
adopted :
REPORT ON FOREIGN MISSIONS
Recommendations
I. That the Presbytery at this meeting engage in special prayer
for such an outpouring of the Spirit on our churches as will enable
the Executive Committee to send to all our Missions the desperately
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needed reenforcements for which they are pleading, and will bring
our whole Church into a deeper sympathy with Him on whose great
heart lay ever closest and heaviest the burden of the unreached.
2. That churches, societies, and individuals assume, wherever
practicable, definite responsibility for definite parts of the Foreign
Mission work.
3. That rninisters give special attention this year to the mission-
ary education program of their churches, noting the aid offered them
by the Foreign Mission Educational Deportment in working out bet-
ter rpeans of keeping their churches informed with regard to Foreign
Missions.
4. That all our church leaders utiHze to the utmost the Foreign
Mission programs, literature, stereopticon slides, and visits from
foreign missionaries, offered by the Educational Department, in or-
der that missions may be given its scriptural place in all depart-
ments of our church life.
5. That during January, 1930, every Church in the Presbytery
organize a Church School of Missions, using the approved Foreign
Mission study books for each age group.
6. That the Foreign Mission Chairman of this Presbytery
arrange with the Foreign Mission office for missionary itineraries
among all the churches within our bounds as often as opportunity
affords.
7. That Sunday Schools focus their attention this year upon the
Foreign Mission Educational Work, designating their Foreign Mis-
sion contributions to the $100,000 being raised in the Sunday Schools
for this work, such offerings to be credited to the local church For-
eign Mission budget.
8. That Young People's Societies focus their attention this year
upon the rehabilitation of our medical work in China, designating
their Foreign Mission offerings to the $10,000 being raised in the
societies for this work, such offerings to be credited to the local
church Foreign Mission budget.
EDGAR G. GAMMON, Chairman.
The Committee on Sabbath and Family Religion sub-
mitted its report which was received and the recommenda-
tion adopted as follows :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SABBATH AND FAMILY
RELIGION
We recommend that the Lord's Day Alliance and its work be
commended to our people by our ministers from the pulpit and in
their homes and the offering taken for this cause the last Sabbath
of October.
R. J. McILWAIN, Chairman.
The report of the Committee on Evangelism was sub-
mitted, and adopted :
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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON EVANGELISM
When our Lord was to be taken from His disciples and carried
back to heaven, He gave to them that great commission v^hich ever
since has been the marching orders of His Church, "Go ye into all
the world and preach the gospel to every creature." And even as He
raised His hands in a parting blessing, he said, "Lo I am with you
always, even to the end of the world." History bears witness to the
way in which He has kept His word. Where there has been the
spirit of earnest evangelism, there has been evident the presence and
the power of the great Head of the Church. On the other hand,
when the Church has neglected this her foremost duty, always it has
resulted in weakness and spiritual retrogression. As is the spirit of
Evangelism, so is the life of the Church.
In preparing this report for Presbytery we look to see what
guidance or counsel might come to us from our General Assembly.
That body seemed not to have considered the subject, at least not
immediately. We turned for suggestions from the Synod; it too is
silent. Our courts and our churches and our ministers and our mem-
bers are so busy with organization and routine and detail that we
are losing our appreciation of spiritual values.
It is a thought producing fact that for the fiscal year ending
March 31, 1928 (no later figures are available) the churches of our
Presbytery received on profession of faith only one member for
twenty-five who claim to have given themselves to Christ ; and in
these figures our sixty-two ministers of the Presbytery are not in-
cluded. Something is wrong.
The statisticians tell us that less than half of the people of the
United States are members of any Church, Protestant, Catholic, Jew-
ish, Hindoo, or any other ; and meanwhile we mill around swapping
transfers, and receiving our children from our Sunday Schools on
profession of faith; and the restless masses are without Christ.
At the fall meeting of Presbytery your committee on Evangelism
reported 48 churches as having held special evangelistic services for
a total of 438 days, with 365 professions of faith, and 254 accessions
on profession and 64 by letter. Since that time 8 additional churches
report meetings through 71 days, with 132 professions of faith, and
81 accessions by profession and 21 by letter. This gives us a total of
56 churches reporting evangelistic services through a total of 509
days, with 497 professions of faith, and 335 additions on profession
and 85 additions by letters of transfer.
For these results we can thank God. But we would call attention
to the fact that ZJ churches do not report special evangelistic serv-
ices, and that in the call for volunteers for such services in the Pres-
bytery we have response from only about 15 of our 62 ministers.
Facts presented in this report are given not in any spirit of
criticism, but that our ministers and ruling elders may begin to think
more seriously in terms of evangelism ; and that they may be think-
ing toward a constructive policy of evangelistic aggressiveness for
our Presbytery.
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Recommendations
1. That our Pastors and Ruling Elders study prayerfully their
own attitude towards the subject of Evangelism, whether in group
meetings or in individual work for individuals.
2. That the Presbytery urge every minister to engage in this
work, remembering that our best efforts are most needed in our
weaker churches.
3. That when there is Presbyterial appointment for a minister
to hold a series of services, that minister shall keep that appointment
if not providentially hindered; but that the church is expected first
to request him to come. «
4. That the individual church shall defray the expenses of the
visiting preacher.
5. That the churches where meetings are to be held be in-
structed to report to the chairman of this committee ; (a) the date
set for the meeting as early as practicable after the arrangements
have been completed; (b) that immediately after the close of the
meetings they report to the chairman of the committee in the fol-
lowing items : Name of preacher conducting the meeting ; date ; num-
ber of days meeting continues; number of professions of faith; num-
ber of accessions by profession; and number of accessions by letter.
6. That at the fall meeting of Presbytery an hour be devoted to
the study of evangelism under the direction of the committee on
Evangelism.
7. That the following assignments for meetings to be held dur-
ing the year be approved :
Peachland, J. W. Stork ; Polkton, J. M. Walker ; Pageland, W. H.
Johnston; Beulah, W. T. Smith; Salem, A. A. Walker; Bethlehem,
C. W. Sommerville ; Unionville, R. L. Patrick ; Midland, A. S. An-
derson ; Mark's Creek, A. F. Doty; Marston, J. W. Stork; McLean
Memorial, W. T. Smith; Rourk's Chapel, W. T. Smith; Six Mile
Creek, A. A. Walker; Star, A. A. Walker; Turner, E. A. Dillard ;
Lee Parks, L E. Wallace; Banks, S. B. Lyerly; Oakboro, W. T.
Smith; Locust, R. J. Mcllwain; Stanfield, W. T. Smith; Roberdel,
C. E. White; Cameronian, W. B. Mcllwaine; Brainard, A. A. Walk-
er ; Midway, J. B. Reily ; Williams Memorial, A. A. Walker.
Respectfully submitted.
A. A. WALKER.
WM. B. McILWAINE, JR.
W. E. PRICE.
The Committee on Men's Work submitted the following
report which was adopted :
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DEPARTMENT OF MEN'S WORK
Your Committee on Department of Men's Work, created at this
meeting of the Presbytery, in presenting its first report would recog-
nize with us the great possibiHties of this department of our Church's
work.
Finding from the reports placed in our hands only nine churches
with men's organizations, five of these Men's Qubs, four Men of the
Church, and only two of these following wholly the Assembly's plan
or organization, we feel that we are at the beginning of a difficult
task.
With so little thus far accomplished we recognize that ours must
be a stimulating and promotional service. Where there is no in-
terest we must seek to develop it, where there is a measure of in-
terest we must seek to enlarge and sustain it. A real and vital in-
terest must be created among men for the organization, a great deal
of educational work must be done to prepare the way, organizations
when effected must be nurtured.
In accomplishing this task a survey of the field must be made
by the committee, many letters must be written, the literature sup-
plied, study groups secured, and the help of the committee made
available, when desired, in effecting organizations.
Realizing that little can be accomplished in this promotional
work without the sympathetic cooperation of pastors and sessions
we earnestly request of them a careful and prayerful study of the
Constitution of the Men of the Church, the Monthly Programs, the
Service Suggestions, and other literature of the department, believ-
ing if they do they will find in the Men of the Church organization
a plan of study and activity which will develop in their men a knowl-
edge of the life and work of the Church, and which will result in the
deepening of their spirituality.
We therefore recommend :
I. That a definite efifort be made by pastors and sessions to or-
ganize the Men of the Church, whenever practicable according to the
Constitution.
2. That small churches composing a group be organized in one
organization with one group in each church of the group.
3. That we ask Dr. Purcell, Executive Secretary of Men's Work,
to put on at least one training class in our Presbytery.
4. That we pledge our support to the Men's Conference at Mon-
treat to be held during the summer, and that the churches secure as
many delegates as possible to the conference.
Respectfully submitted,
LYNN R. WALKER,
I. E. WALLACE,
A. F. DOTY,
J. E. McLAUCHLIN,
H. J. SPENCER,
C. PARKS BROWN, Committee
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The Stated Clerk was given permission to complete, the
statistical report at his leisure.
The Committee on Assessments reported and their re-
port was adopted as follows :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ASSESSMENTS
Your committee notes the fact that the Home Mission churches
more than others are faiUng in the payment of the Presbyterial Tax.
In view of this situation, the following recommendation is of-
fered : During the coming year, the Stated Clerk shall make every
effort to secure the tax from all the churches. If any of the churches
on the Home Mission Committee fail to meet the tax at a reasonable
time before the spring meeting of Presbytery the names of such
churches shall be placed in the hands of the Superintendent, A. A.
Walker, and he shall be instructed to do all in his power to aid them
in raising the amounts due.
E. G. GAMMON, Chairman.
Presbytery took recess for lunch.
Thursday Afternoon
Presbytery reconvened at 2 :(X) p. m. The following re-
port of the Committee on Leave of Absence was adopted:
LEAVE OF ABSENCE COMMITTEE
Excused after Wednesday afternoon — Rev. J. A. Caligan, C. A.
Bland, J. G. McElroy, W. B. Blount, W. R. Price, T. M. Davis, J. M.
Miller.
After Thursday morning — Dr. J. I. Campbell, H. T. Baldwin,
Nat. C. White.
Excused for attendance upon this meeting of Presbytery:
Rev. W. S. Hamiter, Rev. W. P. Chedester, Rev. J. A. McQueen.
Permission to labor without bounds of Presbytery till spring
meeting: W. S. Hamiter and Chedester.
H. T. BALDWIN, Committee.
R. W. CULBERTSON,
The Committee on Revision of Manual reported progress
and asked to be continued till the Fall meeting of Presby-
tery. The request was granted.
The Committee on Sabbath Schools and Young Peoples*
Work submitted the following report which was adopted
as amended, and is as follows :
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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
The Committee on Religious Education reports as follows :
I. Department of the Sunday School
Your Committee has looked over the reports of the Sunday
schools of the Presbytery, has tabulated these reports, and has placed
its report in the hands of the Stated Clerk. We want to call the
attention of Presbytery to these facts which impressed the Com-
mittee.
1. Several churches have no Sunday schools, or did not report
on them. Those failing to report are Allen, Camden, Lilesville, Mc-
Lean Memorial, Midland, Oakboro, Palestine, Peachland, Pee Dee,
Pineville, Polkton, Porter, Six Mile Creek, Stanfield, Star, Stephen-
son, Tabernacle, and Wadeville. The Sunday school of today is the
church of tomorrow, and no church can hope to get hold of the
young people and children of the community, or hope to grow with-
out a growing Sunday school. We would urge the organization of
Sunday schools in all these churches if possible.
2. Only thirty-four Sunday schools report pupils added to the
church on confession during the year. This Committee is of the
opinion that our superintendents and teachers are losing a golden
opportunity here to get these boys and girls to take a definite stand
for Christ and the church.
3. Only eleven schools report a Home Department. We suggest
that this matter be given more careful consideration by our Superin-
tendents, and where found practicable, such Departments be added.
4. We want to call your attention to the fact that many of these
reports are so poorly made out and so incornplete as to be worthless
for the purpose for which they are intended. This is doubtless true
of other reports than those of the Sunday school.
We would, therefore, recommend that the Stated Clerk address
a letter to all the ministers of the Presbytery near the close of the
church year urging them to take personal oversight of the making
up of all reports to Presbytery, and see that they are properly and
promptly made out.
II. Department of Young People's Work
In some respects the Young People's work of the Presbytery is
making satisfactory progress. The Societies already in existence
seem to be doing splendid work, though there are too few of such
organizations. We believe there is no other work connected with
the church that is doing so much to develop the future leadership
of the church as this. We believe there should be some form of
organization among the young people of each of our churches, and
would recommend that such work be organized where it does not
already exist.
At the meeting of Presbytery last October the Committee on
Young People's Work was given permission to put on a conference
for the young people of the Presbytery at Queens College sometime
this summer. The Committee is not sure that this is the best place
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for this conference, and asks that the time and place for such a
meeting be left in the hands of the Committee.
The following is a summary of the statistical report of the
Young People's Work of the Presbytery showing the progress that
has been made during the year.
Senior Societies
A year ago there were 35 organizations with an enrollment of
1,296. At present we have 36 organizations with an enrollment of
1,510.
Intermediate Societies
A year ago 11 organizations were reported having a membership
of 256. At present 12 such societies were reported with a member-
ship of 385.
Junior Societies
One year ago there were 18 societies with an enrollment of 506.
Today we have 24 Junior societies with a membership of 580.
Other Forms
A year ago seven forms of Young People's work other than
Christian Endeavor were reported. Now there are ten such.
Contributions
A year ago all the societies of the Presbytery reported $753
contributed to benevolences, and $1,268 to the work of the local
church. During the year just closed they contributed $1,410 to
benevolences, and $1,578 to the local church work, making a gain
of $969 for the year.
Respectfully submitted,
S. B. LYERLY, General Chairman.
The Committee on Bills and Overtures reported that no
matters for attention had come into its hands.
The report of the Standing Committee on Presbytery's
Home Missions was adopted as follows :
HOME MISSIONS
Your Standing Committee on Home Missions would make the
following report :
We have examined the report of the Executive Committee of
Home Missions, and would commend the Committee for its faithful
application to the tasks submitted to it by the Presbytery; their
comprensive grasp of the whole problem of Presbyterial Home Mis-
sions and the carefully prepared and comprehensive report of their
work to the Presbytery.
We would especially commend Rev. J. M. Walker, Chairman,
Rev. A. A. Walker, Superintendent, and Ruling Elder W. E. Price,
Treasurer, for their faithfulness and efficiency.
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We recommend the adoption of the report, including all its recom-
mendations.
Charles R. Nesbit, Chairman,
N. C. White,
E. A. Dillard.
REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF HOME
MISSIONS OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
For the Year Ending March 31, 1929,
In making our report for the past year's work we are moved by a
deep sense of gratitude to Almighty God for His manifest blessings
upon our efforts. His favor has been with us at all times, and the
Unseen Hand has led in the way. We would record our high appre-
ciation also of the fine support which we have received from
churches, societies, Sunday schools, and individuals. At no time has
the interest in the work lagged. For this reason many of the prob-
lems which the committee has had to face have been made easy, and
our burden light.
As we look at the work as a whole, and realize the importance of
home missions in the great scheme of redemption, we know we are
dealing with that which is basic. Home Missions has to do with the
opening up of the fountains of our Church's life. We are making
seed-beds for our larger town and city churches. We are preparing
men and women who are to be the future leaders in the Church.
And we are setting agoing great moulding and uplifting influences
for the Kingdom of God and our Church in all these sections of our
Presbytery. Some of these Churches are destined in the days ahead
to become strong- self-supporting Churches. In fact, statistics show
that the vast majority of the self-supporting Churches today began
in just this way — first, a Home Mission Church. They will in turn
help to carry on this work, and support the other causes of the King-
dom. Others are compelled by circumstances over which they have
little or no control, to struggle along for years as weak Home Mis-
sion Churches. And probably there are others which will never be-
come self-supporting, but having served their day and generation will
die a natural death, and be called to their reward. But what of that?
Our mission is to press forward. The challenge is loud. The need is
urgent. Our response to this appeal is bound to determine the future
of our Church in all this territory. The aggressive Home Mission
Church is a growing Church. Retrench, and we die. The fields are
white unto the harvest for the Church that has the courage to enter.
We are limited in this great work mainly by the lack of funds with
which to do it. We rejoice to know that the Churches have a firm
hold on this truth also, and as a consequence we have been enabled
to report each year, now for a number of years, with the exception
of this year, a larger contribution to this cause than the previous
years. It is this increased interest, thus manifested, that brings joy
to your committee, and gives them heart in the work.
I. The Work
In a brief review of the work we can hope to touch but a few of
the many interesting matters that come before us during the year.
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While the character of the work on the whole remains the sarng^nd
there are many problems in common from year to year, still the com-
plexion of the work is ever changing. It is this that creates the new
problems for us, and at the same time makes the work most inter-
esting.
1. Our responsibility:
We now have 49 churches and seven mission points under the
care of the home mission committee. These Churches are grouped
into 19 separate pastoral charges. The Bethel and Cornelius group
of Churches, with the beginning of the new church year, become
self-supporting. They are to be congratulated upon this new step;
and we hope for them still larger things as they go alone.
One new Church was organized during the year, that at Midway
near Rockingham; and one new Sunday School in the Ellerbe group.
The committee has on its list a number of Churches which are
working hard to become self-supporting within the next year or two.
We hope to report a long list of these at our next annual meeting.
Self-support should be the ideal of all these Churches, whatever their
condition : that funds now being used for their support might be
released for new work. We have many new fields which have gone
all too long already unoccupied by our Church.
2. The men on the field :
All the home mission churches are being regularly served either
with a pastor or stated supply with the exception of the Pageland,
Beulah, and Salem group ; and Bethlehem, Unionville, and Midland.
Our superintendent is arranging for student supplies for these two
groups during the summer. We look forward with delight to the
coming of a number of young men from the Seminary to take perma-
nent work with us. Some of these have been with us each summer
during their Seminary course.
We have had fewer changes in the home mission fields during the
past year than for a number of years. This has not only made for
the stabiHty and progress of the work, but it has lessened greatly the
task assigned the committee. The men have been working stead-
fastly, saying little and sacrificing much for the cause of the King-
dom; and the Church should esteem them highly for their work's
sake. They have been doing splendid service, and it is beginning to
tell. Last year they had 213 professions of faith^ and they received
into the Church on profession, 175, and by letter 136, making a total
of 331 added to the Church from the home mission fields. They
preached 1,567 sermons, 157 of which were by our Supt. Rev. A. A.
Walker.
3. The Building Program:
We have just been through a great building era in our home mis-
sion churches. As a matter of fact we are not through with it yet, but
rather, we are right in the midst of it, with many new Churches yet to
be erected. Some of the Churches which have built, have erected only
the first unit of their plant, namely, the Sunday school building ; as in
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the case of Wilmore and the Plaza. Counting these the following
Churches have new church buildings : Wilmore. Plaza. Thomasboro,
Cornelius. Candor, Norman, Ellerbe. Marston, Mt. Gilead. Norwood,
Badin, Tabernacle, Lee Park, Turner, Marshville, Beulah, and Stevenson.
It is to be noted that the Churches which have in recent years become
self-supporting have been Churches that have had new church buildings.
This itself is one indication of the value of a good church plant in the
work of the Kingdom.
Churches which have their plans for building, and in some cases are
already in the act of building are these : North Charlotte, Troy, Biscoe,
Star, Lilesville, Bethlehem, and Waxhaw. One or two others are plan-
ning extensive remodeling of their old church buildings ; others have
manses to build. It is evident with such a building program on as this,
the committee will be hard put to to find the funds \yith which to help
on in this laudable work. Because of adverse circumstances in the
local congregation some of these churches are struggling under a heavy
building debt. We must help them as far as we are able. For that reason
we again call the attention of the Presbytery to the importance of having
a special fund for just this work. We earnestly hope that the Presby-
ter>- can devise some plan for securing just such a iund. which cer-
tainly should not be less than S25,000 to begin with. It could be loaned
at a low rate of interest to be paid back to the committee over a long
term of years.
II. Finances
Total receipts from Churches, Societies. Sunday Schools, and indi-
viduals amounted to 517,648.05 as compared to last year's S22.026.63 or
a decrease of S4.378.58. It should be said here, the opening paragraphs
of this report were written before the final report of the treasurer was
received. Right up to the last it looked as if our receipts for the year
would equal or surpass those of last year, and no one of the committee
was prepared for the sudden drop in receipts. Some of the Churches
which we have been in the habit of depending on rather strongly have
not sent in their usual funds. Word comes at the last moment that these
funds have been sent in but they will be received too late for our Treas-
urer to get them in this year's .report. Total receipts for the year includ-
ing a balance of $3658.59 with which we began the year, and the Pied-
mont Fire Ins. Co. fund of S1435. received upon the burning of the
North Charlotte Church, and the Oakboro Manse fund of S594.18. and
<.crtain notes which the committee held to the amount of $650.00 and a
small interest fund, all of which you will find listed in the treasurer's
report amounted to $24,109.95.
Total expenditures for the year amounted to $20,522.26 or about
S2,500 more than we received from all the Churches, Societies, Sunday
School, and individuals combined. We report a balance on hand of
S3, 587. 33, due to the fact that we cut down to the bone all through
the summer and winter months hoping to have enough in the end of the
year to meet the pressing building needs. This will have to be carried
over into the new year, and will form a problem for us all this coming
year.
III. Policies
We restate some of the policies of the committee. They have become
established by long usage, and the repeated approval of the Presbytery.
We restate them for emphasis.
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1. It is the policy of the committee to reduce all appropriations to the
fields each year 10 per cent. This is done to create within the Church
the desire to become self-supporting. Each Church is expected to make
up this difference to its pastor, and perchance more as the effort is being
made. Your committee feels that Presbytery should lay this matter
forcibly upon all these Home Mission Churches, and it might be done
with profit to others that are not Home Mission Churches. The funds
thus released can be used in developing other needy fields, and in opening
up new work.
2. The committee will expect every pastor engaged in Home Mission
work to live on the field he serves.
3. The committee will expect all applications for aid in building
churches and manses to be made in writing. Such applications must
show cost of building contemplated, and the amount of money already
raised for the same. The committee must formally pass upon all appli-
cations before they can be held as binding for appropriations. Further,
Churches expecting to receive aid from the Home Hission committee
in building either church or manse are requested to confer with the
committee in regard to the site, the style of building, and the plans for
financing the same, before they actually begin operation.
4. The committee will expect all Home Mission churches and
manses to be properly insured, and care taken to see this insurance is
kept up.
5. Churches receiving aid from the Home Mission committee are
expected to pay in full their apportionment to Presbytery's Home
Missions.
IV. Recommendations
1. That Rev. A. A. Walker be re-elected Superintendent of Presby-
tery's Home Missions.
2. That Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine be re-elected evangelist of Union and
Anson counties.
3. That Presbytery grant the following supplies :
A. S. Anderson, Badin and Palestine ; J. B. Reily, Roberdel, Brain-
ard, Cameronian and Midway ; C. E. White, Waxhaw, and Tabernacle.
Student Supplies :
M. R. Moss, Bethlehem, Midland, and Unionville; J. A. Mclntyre,
Pageland, Beulah, and Salem.
4. That a conference for the workers and their wives on the Home
Mission fields to be held on June 11, at Morven at the expense of the
committee.
5. That the Home Mission committee be given the authority to sell
the Allen Church and land, and purchase a lot for a new building near
the Clear Creek consolidated high school, if the way be clear, and it
seems good to the committee.
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6. In view of the pressing needs of the work, and especially because
of the great building era through which we are going just now, and
the many demands made upon the committee for this special form of
assistance. Presbytery urges upon each church, when it is at all pos-
sible, to pay in full its apportionment to Presbytery's Home Missions,
namely, 15 per cent of the total budget.
7. That Presbytery approve the following appropriations for the year
1929-30 :
Superintendent's Salary $3,000.00
Indian Trail and Siler 720.00
Troy, Wadeville and Star 750.00
Ellerbe, Mt. Carmel, and Norman 580.00
Oakboro, Locust, and Stanfield 1,200.00
Pageland, Beulah, and Salem 1,200.00
Robinson 275.00
Peachland and Polkton 1,000.00
Roberdel, Brainard, Cameronian, and Midway 300.00
Walkersville, Rehoboth, Bethany and Altan__ 800.00
Candor, Biscoe, and Macedonia 700.00
North Charlotte 1,200.00
Wilmore 700.00
Waxhaw, Marshville, and Tabernacle 100.00
Unionville, Bethlehem and Midland 1,200.00
Mark's Creek, Marston, McLean Mem., Rourk's Chapel 1,200.00
Morven, Lilesville, and Camden 900.00
Six Mile Creek 175.00
Superintendent's traveling expenses 1,200.00
Union County Evangelist 600.00
Mt. Gilead Heating Plant 500.00
Training School Workers 300.00
Incidental Expenses 500.00
Church Buildings Promised 4,000.00
Total $22,380.00
NOTE — The Treasurer's Report properly audited and signed is
hereby attached.
Chairman.
W. E. PRICE, TREASURER HOME MISSIONS COMMITTEE
MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
MARCH 30, 1929
Receipts
Balance Report March 31, 1928 $ 3,658.59
Churches, Aux. Societies, Sunday School and Individ. 17,648.05
Dividends from Commercial Nat'l Bank 24.00
W. E. Price for note paid 650.00
Piedmont Fire Ins. Co., N. Charlotte Church 1,435.00
Interest received on Cert, of dept. and notes 93.13
J. G. Garth, Evangelism Committee 7.00
Oakboro Bank Manse Fund 594.18
Total Receipts $24,109.95
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Disbursements
Workers, Supt Salary, Exp. to April 1, 1929 $14,864.15
Special Expenses A. A. Walker, Supt 46.10
Cabinet for filing, A. A. Walker, Supt 43.85
Insurance Automobile 28.00
Printing 52.45
Home Mission Conference Expenses 49.83
Paint for Robinson, Polkton, Camden and Indian
Trail Churches 202.55
Postage by Treasurer ^ 5.00
Expenses Evangelism Committee 7.75
Ellerbe Church — Note Jefferson Standard Life 336.81
Thomasboro Church Heating Plant 500.00
Training School to Rev. P. W. Wilson 300.00
Brainard Church Bldg., repairs 500.00
Pageland Church Bldg., note A. N. Sharpe, Atla., Ga. 315.00
R. E. Rogers, note Statesville Avenue Fund 800.00
Mutual B. & L. cert. Oakboro Group Manse 600.00
Mech. B. & L. Cert., N. Charlotte Funds 1,500.00
Note Candor Church, charge back at Bank 401.13
Balance in Bank 3,587.33
Total disbursements $24,109.95
Liabilities
Due Thomasboro Church, balance of $250.00
Due Roberdel Manse 400.00
^$650.00
Assets
Note Statesville Avenue .__$ 856.30
Two Shares Stock Com. Nat'l Bank 450.00
Dodge Sedan 500.00
Cert. Dept. F. & M. Bank 2,000.00
B. & L. Cert. N. Charlotte 1,500.00
B. & L. Cert. Oakboro 600.00
Candor Church Note 400.00
$6,306.30
We have carefully audited the books of W. E. Price, Treasurer of
Home Mission Committee, and find same correct as per above statement.
J. F. Jamison, .
J. L. Williamson.
Respectfully submitted,
W. E. Price, Treas.
The Committee on Schools and Colleges reported and
the report was adopted as amended and is as follows :
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
Your permanent Committee on Schools and Colleges begs leave
to submit the following report :
We have examined the report of Queens College referred to us
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 35
by the Presbytery and would call attention to the following interest-
ing facts reflecting a splendid condition in the college under the
administration of Rev. W. H. Frazer, D.D., President.
The total enrollment has been 327, consisting of 56 Seniors, 45
Juniors, 88 Sophomores, 114 Freshmen, and 24 Specials. We will
graduate 56 Seniors on the 28th day of May.
The financial report given to the Board of Trustees on the 15th
day of February was very encouraging, and since that time the col-
lege has met all bills, and on April 6th had in bank $5,580.14, and
bills receivable of $23,328.59, making a total of $28,908.73 as a fund
upon which to finish the session. The 3'ear will be closed without
a deficit. The work in every wa}^ is encouraging.
The thing of greatest importance for the Institution is the raising
of the remaining part of the Endowment. The Committee appointed
by the Board of Trustees, of which Airs. C. C. Hook is chairman,
has been diligently at work planning a campaign for the securing of
$200,000.00. The active part of this campaign is to begin on April
14th and run through April 21st, the soliciting being done by the
Alumnae Association largely, together with women from the various
Presbyterian churches within the bounds of the controlling Presby-
teries. We feel that this is the most important thing that is before
the Church of today. The Chairman of the Campaign Committee,
Mrs. Hook, called the ministers of the Presbyteries together for a
conference in Januar)^ and secured from them a promise to either
preach on the subject of Christian education on April 14th, or to
make reference to the campaign which is beginning on that day.
The success of this campaign now means the establishing of the
Institution upon a permanent basis. ^
We have had no report from Davidson College, and only a finan-
cial report from Albemarle Normal and Industrial Institute sub-
mitted by Miss Kate B. Pridgen, Principal. There was no report
from the Trustees. The financial statement submitted covering the
period from June 14th. 1928, to April ist, 1929, is as follows:
RECEIPTS
Received from Students $3,762.09
Received from Synod 991.46
Received from Other Sources 822.21
TOTAL RECEIPTS $5,57576
Note due March 19, 1929 $ 600.00
Note due March 29, 1929 1,100.00
Note due April 17, 1929 1,500.00
3,200.00
$8,775.76
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DISBURSEMENTS
Overdraft June 14, 1928 $ 588.80
Teachers' Salaries 5,53i-55
Food 1,766.53
Fuel 323-30
Repairs 1 414.88
Interest 89.50
Advertising . 225.48
Insurance . 434-56
Checks returned, plus protest fee 90.34
Postage, supplies, Hghts, telephone, etc 483.36
TOTAL DISBURSEMENT^ $9,948.30
Overdraft April i, 1929 1,172.54
$8,775.76
Budget for April and May $2,500.00
Amount due from Pupils 1,127.29
REMAINDER $1,372.71
ESTIMATED DEFICIT FOR YEAR
Notes $3,200.00
Overdraft 1,172.54
Budget deficit 1,372.71
$5,745-25
K. Pridgen.
RECOMMENDATIONS
1. That the campaign of Queens College for the raising of $200,-
000.00 to begin April 14th, and continue through April 21st be again
endorsed and the same given enthusiastic support by all our Minis-
ters and Churches. That to this end Presbytery hereby designates
April 14th, as Queens College Day in all the churches, and that our
Ministers be urged to present this cause to all the people.
2. We recommend the closing of Albemarle Normal and Industrial
Institute at the close of the present school year, and direct the Trus-
tees of Presbytery to visit the school, investigate the financial situa-
tion especially the notes due by the school as set forth in the above
report, and report to Presbytery at its adjourned meeting their
findings.
3. We further direct the Trustees of the Presbytery to examine
the Title to the property of the Albemarle Normal and Industrial
Institute and take such steps as may be necessary to protect the
interests of this Presbytery in the same, reporting their actions to
the Presbytery.
Dr. W. H. Frazer was heard in the interest of Queens
College in connection with the above report.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 2,7
The matter of Albemarle Institute was docketed for the
adjourned meeting of Presbytery.
The Board of Trustees of the Albemarle Institute were
ordered to meet on the 29th of April to formulate a report
to Presbytery for the adjourned meeting.
The Trustees of the Presbytery were requested to visit
the Albemarle Institute, to investigate the finances and the
title to property of that school and report back to the ad-
journed meeting.
The Committee on Women's Work submitted the fol-
lowing report which was adopted.
WOMEN'S SCX:iETIES
Your committee on Women's Societies begs leave to submit the
following excellent report on the Auxiliaries of this Presbytery, and
to commend the women for the splendid work they are doing, and
for the fine organization they have effected among the churches of
this Presbytery. We are offering the report handed in by the Pres-
byterial Auxiliary, which is so finely led by its president, Mrs. A. A.
Walker, and her fellow officers.
We are also submitting the names of the officers of the Presby-
terial as they have been chosen for the current year :
ANNUAL STATISTICAL REPORT OF WOMEN'S AUXILIARY
Mecklenburg Presbyterial
1928-1929
Churches in Presbytery having organization 68
Auxiliaries in Presbyterial, 67 — Members 4,814
Auxiliaries averaging 50 per cent in attendance 17
Auxiliaries including all women on church roll 43
Auxiliaries divided into circles 49
Auxiliaries whose general circles shift annually 40
Business Women's Circles, 18 — Members 717
Home Circles, 17 — Members 255
Contributians
To Denominational Benevolences:
1. Foreign Missions $13,008
2. Assembly's Home Missions (To Atlanta) 4,818
(a) Birthday Gift — Nurses Training School 1,579
3. Christian Education and Ministerial Relief 2,332
4. Publication and Sabbath School Work 563
5. Assem. Train. School for Lay Workers 249
6. Bible Cause 233
7. Synod's Home Missions 2,068
8. Orphans' Home 6,848
9. Educational Institutions 3,i93
10. Presbytery's Home Missions 3,527
Total Denominational Benevolences $38,418
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To Local Church Work:
11. Expenses of Local Auxiliary:
(a) Local Auxiliary Contingent Fund $ 4,273
(b) Pres. and Syn. Contingent Fund 953
12. Building Expense ii,i73
Total Local Church Work $i6,399
13. Miscellaneous Contributions $12,762
Total Denominational Benevolences $38,418
Total Local Church Work_^ 16,399
Total Miscellaneous Contributions 12,762
GRAND TOTAL ALL CONTRIBUTIONS $67,579
Amount per capita . $14.00
ANNUAL EDUCATIONAL REPORT OF WOMEN'S AUXILIARY
Mecklenburg Presbyterial
1928-1929
Prayer Bands 161 Members 2,063
Women's Bible Classes 123 Members 2,067
Family Altars 722 Tithers 976
Auxiliaries presenting Stewardship during year 46
Mission Study Classes:
Foreign 57 Members 1,642 Meetings 105
Home 51 Members 1,383 Meetings 119
Auxiliaries undertaking White Cross Work 41
Auxiliaries observing season of Prayer and Self -Denial for Missions:
Foreign. 42 Home 38
Volunteers for Life Service __ 16
High School Circles 5 Members 87
Junior Circles 13 Members 266
Church School of Missions ^ 4
Copies Prayer Calendar taken 1,025
Survey Subscribers 1,394
Survey Canvasses made 52
Church Paper Subscribers 1,271
Church Paper Canvasses made 48
Auxiliaries using Year Book of Programs 46
Auxiliaries doing Christian Social Service 37
Standard for Women's Auxiliary
Blue Circle Auxiliaries 22
Silver Circle Auxiliaries 14
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OFFICERS MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERIAL
1929-1930
President Mrs. A. A. Walker, Charlotte, N. C.
Vice-President Mrs. J. B. Spillman, Charlotte, N. C.
Recording Secretary Mrs. J. E. Driscoll, Charlotte, N. C.
Corresponding Secretary Mrs. J. P. Stowe, Charlotte, N. C.
Secretaries of Causes
Foreign Missions Mrs, W. A. Henderson, Monroe, N. C.
Assembly's Home Missions Mrs. Flynn Wolfe, Charlotte, N. C.
S. S. Ext. and Y. P. Work Mrs. Sydney Alverson, Charlotte, N. C.
Spiritual Life Mrs. Guy A. Burns, Charlotte, N. C.
Literature Mrs. J. T. Rigler, Charlotte, N. C.
S. & P. Home Missions Mrs. C. G. Long, Albemarle, N. C.
Christian Social Service Mrs. H. B. Hunter, Charlotte, N. C.
Orphanage Work Mrs. Lynn Walker, Hamlet, N. C.
District Chairmen
Charlotte District—Mrs. L L. Black, 1513 E. 4th St., Charlotte, N. C.
Anson County Mrs. L. C. Broome, Peachland, N. C.
Mecklenburg County.Mrs. J. B. Watt, Jr., R. F. D. 3, Charlotte, N. C.
Montgomery County Mrs. John McMillan, Candor, N. C.
Stanley County Miss Annie Morrow, Albemarle, N. C.
Union County Mrs. T. H. Mitchell, Indian Trail, N. C.
Richmond County Mrs. R. T. Pigue, Hamlet, N. C.
The Committee on Synod's Minutes submitted a report
which was adopted as follows :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SYNOD'S MINUTES
Your committee on Synod's Minutes does not find anything
which demands action by the Presbytery, but we would call your
attention to the following items :
p. 28 — Synod through its Stewardship Committee urges each
Presbytery to assume responsibility for putting on the every mem-
ber canvass.
p. 31- — Synod heartily and earnestly commends The Junior Col-
lege for Men to the interest and support of the Presbyteries.
P- 33 — Syiiod urges all Presbyteries to take steps to set up Pres-
byterial Young' People's Conferences.
p. 39 — All Presbyteries of Synod and their agencies are urged to
give their printing to the Presbyterian Standard.
p. 43— With regard to the proposal to establish a Permanent
Judicial Commission of the Assembly the Synod says : "This pro-
posed change in our method of procedure in judicial business de-
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serves most careful and prayerful attention by all our Presbyteries."
Respectfully submitted,
W. H. JOHNSTON,
N. C WHITE,
R. W. ELLIOTT.
The Committee on Sessional Records reported as fol-
lows, and the report was adopted :
SESSIONAL RECORDS
Your committee on Sessional Records submits the following
report :
Session books of the following churches were approved without
exception. Myers Park, Wadesboro, Amity, Waxhaw, Norman,
Bethany, Sugaw Creek, Norwood, Paw Creek, Caldwell Memorial,
Thomasboro, St. Paul, Tenth Avenue, Charlotte First, Mulberry,
Albemarle First, Hopewell, Sharon, Monroe First, Steel Creek, Hun-
tersville, Williams Memorial, Mt. Carmel, Second Presbyterian, West
Avenue, Rockingham, Ellerbe, Macedonia, Hamlet, McGee, Wil-
moore. Pleasant Hill, Mt. Gilead.
Session books of the following churches were approved with the
following exceptions :
First — Those that did not hold regular quarterly meetings. Plaza,
Robinson, Cornelius, Candor, Walkersville, Pageland, Ramah, Union-
ville, Central Steel Creek, Pee Dee, Banks, Philadelphia, North
Charlotte, Westminster, Marks Creek, Bethlehem, Oakboro, Mc-
Lean's Memorial, Newell, Mallard Creek.
Second — ^Those not having minutes for first part of year at all.
Indian Trail and Midway.
Third — Those having no minutes at all. Biscoe.
We are glad to notice that the churches having meetings opened
or closed their meetings with prayer.
Respectfully submitted,
W. T. SMITH, Chairman.
The report of the Committee on Orphans' Home was
submitted and adopted as follows :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ORPHANS' HOME
There are now 356 children in the Orphans' Home at Barium
Springs. It has been necessary to cut down on the intake of chil-
dren, only so many being admitted as will maintain this capacity
population of the Home. Through the past year 42 children have
been dismissed and 43 have been admitted.
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260 applications have been investigated by the field worker. In
addition to these investigated applications there have been almost
as many more coming to the Superintendent's desk, which at once
showed some feature setting them beyond the province of the insti-
tution's interest. The field worker has done much, through co-oper-
ation with other relief agencies, to take unnecessary responsibility
from our orphanage.
Barium Springs is not the lowest among orphanages in per
capita expenditures, but it is well below the average.
Barium Springs has a larger percentage of children of Presby-
terian parentage than any other orphanage of the Southern Assem-
bly, except one.
While our orphanage has a splendid equipment and staff of
workers, it is below standard in income. It is also below standard
in having too many children to a dormitory.
At the close of the past church year the Superintendent reports :
"We are twenty-five thousand dollars behind the final wind up of
last year."
In view of these facts your committee requests Presbytery to
urge all the churches,
(i) To promote an active interest in the Orphans' Home.
(2) To be faithful in giving to the institution its full percentage
of the benevolent offerings.
(3) To be as liberal as possible in "over and above gifts" to the
orphanage on special occasions, such as Thanksgiving and Christmas.
J^espectfully submitted,
W. H. JOHNSTON,
R. W. CULBERTSON,
W. A. JAMISON.
It being determined that the Presbytery had more than
16,000 memberships, an additional minister and elder with
alternates were elected as follows :
Ministers : Lynn R. Walker, Alternates W. C. Under-
wood and S. B. Lyerly.
Elders : T. J. Smith, Alternates J. W. McCain and F. H.
Andrews.
The following Commissions were appointed to ordain
and install Messrs. Cooper and Prince :
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ORDINATION OF W. C. COOPER
Commission to ordain and install Mr. W. C. Cooper in
the Oakboro Group of Churches on the second Sunday in
June :
Rev. A. A. Walker, Chairman, with Rev. J. A. Caligan,
Rev. W. C. Underv^ood, Alternates C. C. Beam, J. W. Stork,
Elder W. E. Price, Alternate R. L. Martin.
ORDINATION OF M. B. PRINCE
A. A. Walker, C. E. White, R. J. McIWaine. Alternates
J. A. Caligan, W. G. Thomas, Elder W. H. Belk, Alternate
Dr. J. I. Campbell.
The Executive Committee of Home Missions was re-
elected for the new church year with the addition of Dr.
Hardie.
Dr. J. R. Bridges and Rev. J. G. Garth were heard in
the interests of the Presbyterian Standard.
The report of the Committee on Vacancy and Supply
was taken from the docket and adopted as follows:
COMMITTEE OF VACANCY AND SUPPLY
For the information of the churches of the Presbytery
we repeat part of the report made by this committee to
Presbytery a year ago, as follows :
The Bureau of Vacancy and Supply is one of the most service-
able departments of our Assembly's work. This Bureau, under the
direction of Rev. J. D. Leslie, D.D., Stated Clerk of the Assembly,
with his office at 1521 Kirby building, Dallas, Texas, holds itself in
readiness to be helpful to vacant churches seeking a pastor, and to
ministers who, for any reason are seeking a change in their pas-
torates.
The service of this bureau is without cost either to church or
minister, and all correspondence is strictly confidential. Dr. Leslie
gives the assurance that no publicity will be given that is not author-
ized by the minister registering.
Any vacant church wishing a pastor is urged to make its desire
known to this bureau, stating the conditions of the field, the salary
paid, and any other information that may be necessary. Dr. Leslie
will immediately send to the church thus registering the name of a
man who may seem to meet the needs of the field. A vacant church
need have no hesitation in availing itself of the help of this bureau,
as the usual procedure in the call of a pastor may be followed.
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Presbytery's committee of Vacancy and Supply, during the past
year, has offered its services to the churches that have become
vacant, to moderate their congregational meetings, help them secure
pastors, and as far as v^e could supply them with preaching. Quite
a number of churches have availed themselves of our help. To the
best of our ability, we are ready to help in this same service for
the future.
Through the kindness of Mr. W. E. Price, a member of this
committee, we have maintained an unofficial bureau of Supply dur-
ing this past year. In the beginning of the year, we invited all
ministers who were available for temporary Supply work to regis-
ter with Mr. Price; the churches wishing to be supplied for one or
more Sundays were asked to telephone, or v/rite Mr. Price, and a
minister would be supplied them. This unofficial bureau will be
maintained throughout this year. Mr, Price's address is 9 West
Third street, Charlotte, N. C. ; telephone Hemlock 932.
We think it but right to say, however, that the churches thus
supplied should pay the expenses of the minister supplying them,
together with a fair remuneration for his services. This committee
has no funds with which to pay such expenses or remuneration ;
and we can assume no responsibility in the same.
A. A. WALKER,
W. E. PRICE.
An adjourned meeting of Presbytery was set for the
first Monday in May in the First Presbyterian Church
at Charlotte at 10:00 a. m. and the matter of Union of the
Presbyterian Church in U. S. with the United Presbyterian
was deferred until that time. This was presented in a
resolution by Dr. A. R. Shaw opposing the Union.
The Stewardship Committee's report was adopted as
follows :
REPORT OF STEWARDSHIP COMMITTEE
To the Presbytery of Mecklenburg:
The total amount apportioned by' the Synod of North Carolina
to the Presbytery of Mecklenburg for Benevolences for the fiscal
year which closed March 31st, 1929, was the sum of $197,997.00, of
which the sum of $197,111.00 was paid by the Churches of the Pres-
bytery during said year, indicating that the Presbytery lacked only
.00 of paying its Benevolence apportionment in full.
The total amount contributed and paid by all of the churches of
the Presbytery for Current Expenses during the fiscal year which
closed March 31st, 1929, was the sum of $330,660.00. The total
therefore for Benevolences and Current Expenses paid during the
year which closed March 31st, 1929, was $527,771.00. The above
named amounts were contributed by 81 of the churches of the
Presbytery, according to their reports to the Presbytery at thf"
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Spring Session of 1929. Thirteen of the churches of the Presbytery-
have made no reports to this meeting of Presbytery and therefore
their contributions for benevolences and current expenses are not
included in this Report. If the contributions of those 13 churches
for Benevolences during the past year w^ere known and could be
included in the above totals, it is probable that the Benevolent quota
of the Presbytery for last year would be more than paid.
The amount apportioned to this Presbytery by the Synod for
Benevolences for the year beginning April ist, 1929, was the sum of
$220,000.00, which apportionment was accepted by the Presbytery at
the Fall meeting of 1928. The Every Member Canvass for the year
beginning April ist, 1929, reveals, from the reports filed, that the
sum of $148,838.00 has been subscribed for Benevolences by the
churches which have reported. Several of said churches of the
Presbytery have made no reports of their Every Member Canvass;
a number of them have made incomplete reports.
The amount subscribed for Current Expenses in the recent
Canvass by the churches which have reported is $181,627.00.
The number of subscribers for Benevolences was 4,991 and the
number for Current Expenses was 5,779. The number of tithers
reported was 869, and the number of Family Altars was 350.
A tabulated statement is hereto attached, showing the figures
for such of the 94 churches of the Presbytery as have reported on
the items above mentioned, with the totals at the foot of the
columns.
The amount subscribed for Benevolences this year in the Can-
vass exceeds the subscriptions in the Canvass of last year by $2.-
819.00, and the amount subscribed for Current Expenses this year
is $14,070.00 less than the amount for Current Expenses last year.
These figures are from the churches reporting and, as stated, the
subscriptions for those making no report is unknown.
The amount expended by the Secretary of Stewardship for sta-
tionery, postage, printing, etc., was $17.23, the same representing
actual expenses. '
Recommendations
1. The Stewardship Committee recommends that when the ap-
portionments are adopted next fall for the coming year beginning
April 1st, 1930, the amount due by each individual church for each
of the benevolent causes will be calculated and published in the
Minutes of the Presbytery, along with tlFie full apportionment of
each church for Benevolences, thereby aiding in the avoidance of
any confusion as to the amount due by each church for each benev-
olent cause.
2. That the apportionment of Central Steele Creek Church for
Benevolences be reduced to $8.80 per member for the year beginning
April 1st, 1929.
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3. We rejoice in the widespread observance, throughout our
General Assembly, of "Stewardship Year" as promoted by the
Stewardship Department in consequence of the action of the last
Assembly, setting aside the year 1929 as "Stewardship Year." We
call attention to the leadership of our Presbytery to the program
for the observance of Stewardship for the remainder of the present
fiscal year.
4. We call the attention of our leadership to the revised Pres-
byterian Progressive Program, copies of which are available, free
of charge, on order from the Stewardship Department, 305 Henry
Grady Building, Atlanta, Georgia.
5. We call attention to the growing importance of Christian
Stewardship as a principle to be instilled in the hearts of the people,
rather than a method to be installed. We believe that this move-
ment has come to the Kingdom for such a time as this; that it offers
the necessary motive power, which, if appropriated, will be suffi-
ciently dynamic to underwrite the present Kingdom task. Steward-
ship is more concerned with dynamics than with mechanics, and
it is power that we need, rather than machinery, today.
6. That the churches adopt some plan of finance similar to that
furnished by the Stewardship Department, and available free of
charge.
7. We recommend that Stewardship be given prominent place
in all conferences, gatherings, and in all plans of the local church ;
that the greatest possible use be made of the Stewardship Depart-
ment of the Assembly, and that the observance of "Stewardship
Year," so far as possible, be made effective in every local church.
8. That this Presbytery urges all its churches to join the "New
Honor Roll," suggested by the Assembly's Stewardship Department,
by paying up one-twelfth of the askings for benevolences each
month; and that we look upon the budget as a "task" to be per-
formed rather than a "tax" to be levied on each individual member;
that we teach our members to give "per capital" rather than "per
capita."
S. B. McLEAN,
Chairman and Secretary of Stewardship.
Rev. J. B. Reily was given the privilege of the floor,
and extended an invitation to Presbytery to hold the Fall
meeting of Presbytery in the Brainerd Church. The invi-
tation, was cordially accepted. The time was fixed as
October 22nd at 11 :(X) a. m.
Messrs. C. Parks Brown and H. J. Spencer were added
to the Committee on Men's Work.
The Committee on Thanks submitted its report which
was adopted as follows :
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RESOLUTION OF THANKS
When at the Fall meeting in Candor the Presbytery of Meck-
lenburg was invited to meet at this time in the Steele Creek Church,
the vote of acceptance of that invitation was most enthusiastic.
The Presbytery felt then that here was the prospect of a most
delightful session.
And now as Presbytery is about to adjourn we would go on
record with the statement that our proudest expectations have
been more than realized. It has been good for us to be here.
We would express our most hearty appreciation of the beautiful
surroundings, the comfortable and commodious quarters, and of the
splendid cordiality and hospitality of the people of this church and
community. Especially to the ladies would we return our thanks
for the delightful way in which they have ministered to the physical
needs of the members of the Presbytery.
May God's blessing abide on pastor and people who have wrought
so well for the entertainment of this court. Thank you, we will
come again.
T. H. MITCHELL,
J. R. KERNS,
WM. B. McILWAINE, JR.,
Committee.
The Minutes of Thursday's sessions were read and ap-
proved as corrected.
Following the roll call, the gavel used during this Pres-
bytery was presented to the Moderator, and Presbytery ad-
journed with a song and Benediction.
W. H. FRAZER, Moderator.
J. W. STORK, Permanent Clerk.
C. G. LONG, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
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ADJOURNED MEETING
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in Charlotte, N. C, May
6, 1929, according to adjournment at the First Presbyterian
Church at 10 a. m. and was called to order by the Moder-
ator, Rev. W. H. Frazer. Devotional Exercises were con-
ducted by Rev. M. E. Peabody. The Presbytery was led
in prayer by Rev. Henry H. Sweets, D.D.
The following were found present:
Ministers — A. R. Shaw, A. S. Johnston, J. W. Grier,
R. S. Burwell, R. J. Mcllwaine, J. G. Garth, J. W. Stork,
W. C. Underwood, S. B. Lyerly, C. G. Long, W. H. Frazer,
C. W. Summerville, Lynn R. Walker, R. W. Culbertson,
C. C. Huntington, C. R. Nisbet, C. C. Beam, H. E. Gurney,
C. H. Little, J. C. Grier, W. H. Johnston, E. G. Gammon,
M. E. Peabody, J. R. Bridges, C. H. Rowan, A. A. Walker,
A. F. Doty, W. H. Matheson, E. A. Dillard, J. L. Caldwell,
J. B. Reily, W. W. Akers, J. M. Walker, T. R. Alexander,
T. H. Mitchell, S. B. McLean, B. F. Yandell, I. E. Wallace,
Q. N. Huneycutt.
Elders — W. A. Jamison, West Avenue, R. C. Freeman,
Steele Creek, Dr. H. Q. Alexander, Providence, W. H. Belk,
Monroe, J. L. Choate, Huntersville, R. O. Robinson, Severs-
ville. Dr. C. M. Strong, Charlotte Second, W. E. Price, Cald-
well Memorial, C. H. Caldwell, Sugaw Creek, T. J. vSmith,
Charlotte, First, N. C. White, St. Paul's, A. D. Campbell,
Amity, R. G. Spratt, Westminster, J. M. Morrow, Albe-
marle First, R. W. Summerville, Paw Creek, T. H. Rowan,
Hamlet, A. M. Herron, Central Steel Creek, F. B. Porter,
Wilmoore.
Rev. Henry H. Sweets, D.D., of Louisville Presbytery,
Rev. W. J. Roach, of Kings Mountain Presbytery, Rev.
A. F. Lavin, of East Alabama Presbytery, and Rev. A. J.
Ranson, of Montgomery Presbytery, were introduced and
invited to set as visiting brethren.
Rev. Jno. L. Caldwell, D.D., presented a letter from
Muhlenburg Presbytery, Rev. J. B. Reily presented a let-
ter from El Paso Presbytery, and Rev. W. W. Akers pre-
sented a letter from Kings Mountain Presbytery. They
were examined on Experimental Religion by the Moder-
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ator, on Theology by Dr. A. S. Johnston, and on Church
Government and the Sacrament by Rev, M. E. Peabody, all
of which was sustained as satisfactory parts of trial. The
examination as a whole was sustained and these brethren
were enrolled after signing the covenant.
Candidate T. F. Wallace was granted a letter of dis-
mission to Congaree Presbytery, and Candidate Edgar E.
Houghton was granted a letter of dismission to Louisville
Presbytery.
A call from Sugaw Creek Church for Candidate L. P.
Burney was found in order and placed in the hands of the
Stated Clerk until he be licensed.
It was moved and carried that when we adjourn, we
adjourn to meet at Charlotte First Church, Friday, May 31
at 2 p. m.
The trustees of Presbytery rendered the following re-
port on Stanley Hall which was accepted. Mr. Hunter
Marshall was granted the privileges of the floor, and the
trustees were thanked for their attention.
REPORT OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MECKLENBURG
PRESBYTERY TO THE SESSION OF THE PRESBYTERY
HELD AT THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, CHAR-
LOTTE, N. C, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1929
Pursuant to authority given at a former meeting of the Pres-
bytery the Board of Trustees have had an examination made of the
title to the property known as Stanley Hall, located near Locust
Grove, North Carolina.
The trustees secured the services of Mr. R. L. Brown, Attorney
at Albemarle, N. C, who made an examination of the title to this
property, and advises us that we have a fee simple title to this
property free from all liens and incumbrances.
The trustees further report that the sum of Fifty ($50.00) Dol-
lars was appropriated by the Presbytery for the purpose of defray-
ing the expenses of conducting the examination of this title; that
Mr. Brown very kindly made examination of title without any
remuneration, and that the sum of Fifty ($50.00) Dollars is now
held by the Trustees subject to such disposition as may be made by
the Presbytery.
J. L. CHOATE, Chairman.
The report of the Trustees of Presbytery touching the
Albemarle Normal and Industrial Institute was called for
and the trustees were granted further time to present
their report.
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REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
TO MEETING OF THE PRESBYTERY HELD AT THE
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, CHARLOTTE, N. C,
MONDAY, MAY 6, 1929.
Pursuant to instructions duly given at a former meeting of the
Presbytery, the Trustees of Presbytery composed of Messrs. H, C.
Alexander, J. L. Choate and Hunter Marshall, Jr., made a visit to
the Albemarle Industrial School, located at Albemarle, North Caro-
lina, for the purpose of becoming familiar with the property held
by that institution.
The Trustees further report that they have not yet completed
the duties assigned to them in the matter of securing data regard-
ing this institution.
J. L. CHOATE, Chairman.
The Trustees of Albemarle Normal and Industrial In-
stitute together with the Superintendent, Miss Katie Prid-
gen, were granted the privileges of the floor, and excused
to formulate their report.
The matter of the Annuity Fund was called from the
docket and Rev. H. H. Sweets, D.D., was invited to address
Presbytery on the subject.
Dr. Sweets was heard with interest, and answered many
questions regarding the Annuity Fund.
The recommendation of the Committee on Christian
Education and Ministerial Relief touching the Ministers'
Annuity Fund was adopted, endorsing the Fund.
The report of the Committee on Christian Education and
Ministerial Relief was adopted as a whole.
The resolution offered by Rev. A. R. Shaw, .D.D., op-
posing further negotiations looking to Union of the Pres-
byterian Church, U. S., and the United Presbyterian Church
was taken from the docket and discussed.
The resolution offered by Rev. A. R. Shaw, D.D., that
the Presbytery of Mecklenburg hereby record its disap-
proval of organic union with the United Presbyterian
Church for the present, was adopted by a vote of 18 to 15.
Recess was taken until 2:15.
After recess Presbytery met at 2:15. Rev. W. W.
Akers, having accepted the call to West Avenue Church,
announced the following commission to install him pastor :
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Commission to install Rev. W. W. Akers pastor of West
Avenue Church, second Sunday, June 9.
Dr. A. S. Johnson, Chairman, to preach, preside, etc.
Dr. C. W. Sommerville, to charge the pastor.
Dr. W. H. Frazer, to charge the people.
Elder Capt. Wm. Anderson; alternate J. T. Porter.
Alternate to ministers : Rev. A. A. Walker, Rev. J. G.
Garth.
The following Commission was appointed to install Rev.
J. B. Reily May 26 at Roberdell, Cameronian, Brainard and
Midway.
Commission to install Rev. J. B. Reily, May 26th, at
Cameronian, Brainard, Midway, and Roberdell: Ministers,
Rev. A. A. Walker, Chairman, Rev. A. T. Taylor, Rev. R. J.
Mcllwaine ; elders, T. H. Rowan, A. W. McKay.
The report of the Board of Trustees of the Albemarle
Normal and Industrial Institute was presented by Rev.
R. J. Mcllwaine which was received and the recommenda-
tions were considered seriatim.
The terms, trustees of. the Presbytery were substituted
for the terms trustees of the School in recommendations
2 and 3.
Rev. Lynn R. Walker, D.D., Rev. Q. N. Huneycutt, D.D.,
requested that their votes against recommendations 2 and
3 be recorded.
The Trustees of the Albemarle Normal and Industrial
Institute were ordered to transfer all deeds to and obliga-
tions upon the property of the school to the Trustees of
Presbytery.
The Trustees of the Albemarle Normal and Industrial
Institute were discharged after the present session of the
school and the execution of the transfer of all property.
The report as a whole was adopted as amended and is
as follows :
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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF ALBEMARLE NORMAL
AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE
We, the Trustees of the Albemarle Normal and Industrial In-
stitute, make the following report :
Those of us who have followed the course of this institution in
its ministry of love, through the medium of Christian education, to
the poor girls of the Piedmont section for more than 30 years, re-
joice for the good it has done and the good it is doing at this very
moment. It is impossible to estimate the influence it has had and is
yet having on the lives of these young women who have received
enough of education here to make them useful citizens, tasted the
joys of Christian home life, some for the first time, and learned to
know Christ as a personal savior through the Christian training re-
ceived here and the daily study of God's word through the year. It
has done a piece of most faithful Presbyterian Home Missionary
work, and along with other schools of its kind led the way for the
State in popular education, both inspiring and provoking it to enter
upon the marvelous program of State education.
This very situation which the private school did so much to bring
about now hampers the school of its kind and threatens its ex-
istence.
This was fully realized two years ago by the trustees who recom-
mended that the school be closed and the property sold (which was
then out of debt) unless Presbytery could furnish a dormitory and
some funds for running expenses. The Presbytery answered by
giving the trustees the right to make a canvass and a committee was
appointed to make the canvass which did not bring the needed
funds or the dormitory, A year later and about a year ago another
effort was made to continue the school with another promise of a
dormitory and the retaining of our very faithful and efficient young
principal only to be disappointed again and to pile up a debt for
running expenses because the dormitory was not forthcoming, and
the pay patronage had been driven away, because it was not forth-
coming, and because the condition of the old dormitory was adver-
tised more and more by this agitation.
The talk of removal and consolidation has also had its share in
this deadly work, until there are now only 18 full pay students in the
school.
1. We therefore recommend that the Albemarle Normal and
Industrial Institute be closed with the completion of the present
school term.
2. That all personal property belonging to the school be im-
mediately sold by the Trustees of Presbytery, and the proceeds ap-
plied to the obligation of the school.
3. That the real estate be held by the trustees of Presbytery
until a more favorable time for sale.
4. That the Board of Trustees of the Albemarle School be in-
52 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
structed to transfer to the Board of Trustees of the Presbytery all
obligations of indebtedness of the school, and titles to all the prop-
erty of the school.
5. That a rising vote of thanks be given Miss Katie Pridgen for
her faithful service as principal of the Albemarle Normal and Indus-
trial Institute.
A petition for the organization of a Church at Nevins
School on the Statesville road, near Charlotte, was referred
to the Standing Committee of Bills and Overtures. The re-
port of the Committee was adopted as follows :
REQUEST FOR NEW CHURCH AT NEVINS SCHOOL HOUSE
Your Committee on Bills and Overtures reports that it has ex-
amined the request for the organization of a church at Nevins, found
the request in order, and recommends the organization of this church.
It would also recommend the appointment of the following commis-
sion to carry out this order of Presbytery : Rev. E. A. Dillard, Chair-
man, Rev. A. A. Walker, Rev. C. C. Beam, Dr. C. R. Nisbet, Dr.
W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., Dr. J. R. Alexander, W. L. Wallis, W. H. Belk.
S. B. LYERLY, Chairman.
C H. ROWAN.
W. H. BELK.
DR. C. W. SOMMERVILLE.
Rev. C. H. Little was appointed by the Moderator to
preach the Presbyterial Sermon at the fall meeting. Mr.
Little announced his subject as "The Christian's Hope."
The minutes were read and approved.
Presbytery adjourned with the Apostolic Benediction by
the Moderator.
W. H. FRAZER, Moderator.
J. W. STORK, Permanent Clerk,
C. G. LONG, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
ADJOURNED MEETING
May 31, 1929.
Presbytery of Mecklenburg met in adjourned session in
the First Church, Charlotte, N. C, on May 31st, at 2 p. m.,
and was opened with prayer.
The following ministers were present : W. H. Frazer,
J. G. Garth, H. E. Gurney, C. W. Sommerville, J. R. Bridges,
C. H. Rowan, A. A. Walker, S. B. Lyerly, S. B. McLean, R.
J. Mcllwain, E. A. Dillard, R. S. Burwell, W. W. Akers, W.
H. Matheson, J. F. Hardie, J. C. Grier, W. H. Johnston, I. E.
Wallace, and Q. N. Huneycutt.
The churches were represented by the following elders :
C H. Caldwell, Sugaw Creek ; S. B. Porter, Wilmore ; S. M.
Alexander, McGee ; Hunter Marshall, Myers Park.
Rev. Q. N. Huneycutt was elected temporary clerk.
Thomas M. Glasgow presented his resignation as a
member of the Board of Trustees of Queens College. His
resignation was accepted and Mrs. Cameron Morrison was
elected to fill his unexpired term.
The commission to install Rev. J. B. Reily at Roberdell,
Brainard, Cameronian, and Midway reported the duty per-
formed, and was discharged.
INSTALLATION OF REV. J. B. REILY
The commission appointed by Presbytery to install Rev. J. B.
Reily respectfully reports that on May 26, 1929, Rev. J. B. Reily was
duly installed pastor at Roberdell, Cameronian, Brainard and Mid-
way. Members of the commission present were Rev. R. J. Mc-
Ilwaine, Rev. A. A. Walker, Elders A. W. McKay, and T. H. Rowan.
A. A. WALKER, Chairman.
The commission to install Rev. Arthur T. Taylor at
Marston, Rourk's Chapel, McLean Memorial and Mark's
Creek reported, its duties fulfilled, and was discharged.
INSTALLATION OF REV. ARTHUR T. TAYLOR
The commission appointed by Presbytery to install Rev. Arthur
T. Taylor reports that on May 12, 1929, Rev. Arthur T. Taylor was
duly installed pastor at Marston, Rourk's Chapel, McLean Memorial
and Mark's Creek. Members of the commission present were : Rev.
L. R. Walker, D.D., Rev. W. G. Thomas, Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine, Rev.
A. A. Walker, and Elder J. D. McRae.
A. A. WALKER, Chairman.
54 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
Murray Boyce White, of Banks Church, presented testi-
monials from his session recommending him as a candidate
for the ministry. After the usual examinations he was re-
ceived by Presbytery and his name enrolled as a candidate.
The trustees of Presbytery made the following report
which was adopted :
REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF PRESBYTERY
Albemarle Normal and Industrial School
WHEREAS, at a recent session of the Mecklenburg Presbytery
a resolution was duly passed authorizing the Trustees of the Albe-
marle Industrial School to transfer and assign all of the real and
personal property belonging to that institution to the Trustees of
the Mecklenburg Presbytery, and
WHEREAS, the Trustees of the Mecklenburg Presbytery have
held a meeting for the purpose of considering the best disposition of
this property, and to this end are securing data covering the assets
and liabilities of the Albemarle Industrial School, and are in process
of securing an abstract of title to this property, and have arranged
for the temporary care of the property, and
WHEREAS, after considering all of the problems incident to
the holding and management of this property, such as disposition of
personal property, maintenance and disposition of real property, re-
financing of all of the obligations, w^hich have become liens on the
property, the Trustees of Mecklenburg Presbytery are of the opinion
that the greatest good may be accomplished by transferring all of
the aforesaid property to Queens College, a corporation organized
and existing under the laws of North Carolina, to be disposed of at
the most favorable time and applied to the Endowment Fund of that
institution.
THEREFORE, The Board of Trustees of Mecklenburg Presby-
tery respectfully recommend to Presbytery that authority be vested
in the Board of Trustees for the purpose of conveying, by Deed or
other proper instrument, all of the aforesaid property, both real and
personal, to Queens College to be applied to the Endowment Fund of
that institution, upon the condition that all of the liabilities of the
Albemarle Industrial School be assumed and paid off by Queens
College.
Stanley Hall School
WHEREAS, the title to that property known as Stanley Hall
School located at Locust Grove, N. C., containing about 33 acres,
eliminating the 12-acre tract, is vested in Mecklenburg Presbytery,
and
WHEREAS, after considering all of the problems incident to the
holding and management of this property, such as the disposition
of personal property, maintenance and disposition of real property,
the Trustees of Mecklenburg Presbytery are of the opinion that the
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 55
greatest good may be accomplished by transferring all of the afore-
said property to Queens College, a corporation organized and exist-
ing under the laws of North Carolina, to be disposed of at the most
favorable time and applied to the Endowment Fund of that insti-
tution.
THEREFORE, The Board of Trustees of Mecklenburg Presby-
tery respectfully recommend to Presbytery that authority be vested
in the Board of Trustees for the purpose of conveying, by Deed or
other proper instrument, all of the afresaid property, both real and
personal, to Queens College to be applied to the Endowment Fund of
that institution, upon the condition that all of the liabilities of the
Stanley Hall School be assumed and paid off by Queens College.
The motion was made and carried that when Presbytery
adjourn it do so to meet in First Church, Charlotte, on the
second Monday in September, the 9th, at 2 o'clock, p. m.
Rev. Walter H. Goodman, of Concord Presbytery, was
introduced and invited to sit as a visiting brother.
Rev. R. J. Mcllwain was appointed on each of the fol-
lowing three commissions : One to ordain and install Rev.
J. S. McFall at Morven, Lilesville, and Camden ; ordain and
install W. C. Cooper at Oakboro, Stanfield and Locust ; and
to ordain and install M. B. Prince at Polkton and Peach-
land.
Rev. Geo. F. Robertson, of Holston Presbytery, was re-
quested to serve on the commission to install M. B. Price at
Polkton and Peachland.
Dr. R. S. Burwell was appointed on commission to install
Rev. W. C. Cooper at Oakboro, Locust and Stanfield.
Mr. L. P. Burney was received as a candidate from
Atlanta Presbytery.
The call for the pastoral service of Leroy P. Burney at
Sugaw Creek was placed in Mr. Burney's hands. He ac-
cepted the call pending his examination for licensure or
ordination, as the case might be.
Mr. Burney presented a diploma from Davidson College
which was accepted in lieu of examination on academic
studies. •
He presented a statement from Dr. Gillespie of Columbia
Theological Seminary, which was accepted in lieu of ex-
amination on Church History and Original Languages.
A committee consisting of E. A. Dillard, Dr. J. F. Hardie
56 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
and Dr. J. R. Bridges was appointed to examine the Greek
Exegesis, the Thesis and the Popular Lecture.
Dr. C. W. Sommerville was appointed to examine the
candidate on theology. The examination was sustained as
satisfactory.
Dr. Sommerville also examined the candidate on Sacra-
ments and Church Government, which was accepted as sat-
isfactory.
Presbytery took recess for five minutes to reconvene
and hear Mr. Burney's sermon.
Prayer was made for Mrs. Geo. F. Robertson by Rev.
S. B. McLean. Mrs. Robertson was very ill at the hospital.
Mr. Burney continued his trial before Presbytery, by
preaching a sermon from Luke 23 :34. The sermon was
sustained as a part of trial.
. The committee on the thesis, exegesis, and popular lec-
ture reported that the parts were entirely satisfactory.
Presbytery accepted this as satisfactory parts of trial.
The examination was sustained as a whole.
The examination was accepted as satisfactory for or-
dination and the following commission was appointed to
ordain and install Mr. Burney on next Sabbath morning,
June 2, at 11 o'clock, in Sugaw Creek Church :
Commission to ordain and install L. P. Burney:
J. G. Garth to preside and preach the sermon ; C. C.
Beam to charge the pastor ; W. H. Frazer to charge the
people ; J. R. Bridges, C. H. Caldwell or C W. Robinson,
alternate.
Rev. S. B. McLean reported his attendance on General
Assembly. The report was received and he was commended
for his diligence.
Rev. Geo. R. Gillespie, of Kings Mountain Presbytery,
was introduced and invited to sit as a visiting brother.
Mr. W. W. Thrower, of Pineville, N. C, presented testi-
monials from the Pineville Church of his fitness to enter
preparation as a candidate for the Gospel ministry. After
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 57
the usual examination he was received as a candidate, and
his name enrolled.
Rev. C. H. Rowan reported his attendance on the meet-
ing of General Assembly at Montreat. He was commended
for his diligence.
After reading the minutes Presbytery adjourned with
prayer, to meet on September 9th, at 2 p. m., in the First
Church, Charlotte.
W. H. FRAZER, Moderator.
Q. N. HUNEYCUTT, Temporarv Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 59
STEWARDSHIP STATISTICS
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Camden
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Candor
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Charlotte First
Charlotte Second
Cook's Memorial
Cornelius
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Hopewell
Huntersville
Indian Trail
Lee Park
Lilesville
Locust
Macedonia
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Mt. Carmel
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MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 6i
INDEX
Adjourned Meeting, December 3, 1928 3
Adjourned Meeting, February 4, 1929 7
Adjourned Meeting, May 6, 1929 47
Adjourned Meeting, May 31, 1929 52
Albemarle Normal and Industrial Institute —
Report of Finances 35
Report of Trustees 51
Closed by Order of Presbytery 51
Equity given to Queens College 54
Akers, W. W. Received 47
Commission to install at West Avenue 50
Annuity Fund — Approved 49
Assessments of Presbytery, Delinquent Churches 26
Brainard Church, Fall Meeting, 11 a. m., October 22 45
Burney, Leroy P. Received and Examined 55
Called to Sugaw Creek 55
Commission to Ordain 56
Candidates Received —
T. M. Davis 13
Murray White 54
W. W. Thrower 56
Called Meeting, January 25 ,1929 5
Caldwell, J. L. Received 47
Calls and Supplies 17
Commissioners to Assembly 15&42
Cooper, W. C. Received 13
Licensed 14
Called to Oakboro 14
Commission to Ordain 41
Culbertson, R. W. — Call changed 20
Education, Committee on Religious 2,y
Education and Relief, Report 20
Evangelism, Report 23
Fall Meeting of Presbytery, October 2^, 11 a. m., Brainard 45
Frazer, W. H. Elected Moderator 10
Foreign Missions, Report 21
Gavel Presented by McCain 10
Given to W. H. Frazer 46
Glasgow, T. M., Trustee of Queens College Resigns 53
Hardie, J. F,, Received 4
Installed at Second Church, Charlotte 8
Hardie, J. F. Added to Presbytery's Committee of H. Missions 42
Historical Foundation, Report 12
Home Missions, Assembly's, Report 19
Home Missions, Presbytery's Report 29
Home Mission, Popular Meeting 20
Little, C. H. to Preach Presbyterial Sermon 52
Long, C. G. Elected Temporary Clerk 10
Leave of Absence, Report 26
Manual Committee, Continued 26
Morrison, Mrs. Cameron, Elected Trustee of Queens 53
Men's Work, Report 25
Men's and Women's Committees Divided 14
62 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
McFall, J. S., Received 13
Licensed 14
Called to Morven 14
Commission to Ordain 18
Mcllwain, R. J., Reelected Evangelist of Union County 32
McLean, S. B., Reports Attendance at Assembly 56
New Church at Nevins to be Organized 52
Nisbet, C. R., Presbyterial Sermon on Atonement 13
Nominations 18
Orphans' Home, Report 40
Oldham, J. M., Added to Education Committee 3
On Special Committee Annuity Fund 21
Prince, M. B., Received 13
Licensed 14
Called to Peachland 14
Commission to Ordain 42
Program of Presbytery . 10
Queens College, Report 34
Receives Equities for Endowment 55
Reily, J. B., Received 49
Called to Roberdell Group 17
Installed at Roberdell 1 53
Records of Presbytery Deposited at Montreat 12
Rowan, C. H., Reports Attendance at Assembly 57
Sabbath and Family Religion, Report 23
Schools and Colleges Report 34
Schools and Colleges, Special Committee 4
Standing Committees ii
Stewardship Prayer-Meeting 7
Stewardship, Report 43
Stewardship Statistics 58
Stanley Hall, Equity given to Queens 54
Sweets, H. H., on Annuity Fund 49
Spring Meeting of Presbytery 9
Sunday Schools, Report 27
Sessional Records, Reviewed 40
Statistics Inserts
Synod's Minutes, Report 41
Taylor, A. T., Received 14
Called to Marston 17
Commission to Install 17
Installed 53
Thanks, Resolution 46
Treasurer's Report, J. G. Garth 15
W. E. Price, Benevolences _, 16
W. E. Price, Home Missions L 33
Trustees of Presbytery 48,49,54
Union with United Presbyterians 49
Vacancy and Supply 42
Walker, A. A., Reelected Home Mission Superintendent 32
Wilson, P. W., Dismissed from West Avenue to Memphis Pres 5
Wallace, T. F,, Candidate Dismissed to Congaree 48
Women's Societies 37
Officers of Presbyterial 39
Young People's, Report 27
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STATISTICAL REPORT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1929
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REPORT OF SABBATH SCHOOLS
9. Sabbath and Family Religrlon— R. J. Mcllwain, W. S. Hamiter,
Thomas Spratt, Wm. Ross.
10. Evangelism— A. A. Walker, W. B. Mcllwaine, W. E. Price.
11. Men's Societies— Lynn R. Walker, I. E. Wallace, A. F. Doty J. E.
McLaughlin, C. P. Brown, H. J. Spencer.
12. Women's Societies^W. B. Mcllwain, J. C. Grier, W. B. S.
Chandler, H. J. Spencer, R. G. Spratt.
13. Auditing — J. F. Jamison, J. L. Williamson.
14. Stewardship — E. A. Dillard, Chairman and Secretary of Steward-
ship ; W. H. Frazer, W. H. Johnston, E. G. Gammon, Frank
Matthews, W. E. Neil, R. A. Grier.
15. Men's Work— P. S. Gilchrist, C. P. Brown, H. J. Spencer, J. M.
Oldham, J. P. Marsh, M. E. Trotter, J. M. Harris.
IG. Sessional Records— W. T. Smith, R. S. Burwell, Q. N. Huneycutt,
and five elders.
17. Examinations:
(i) Experimental Piety — The Moderator.
(2) Academic Studies — R. W. Culbertson.
(3) Languages — Latin Thesis and Greek Exegesis — C. W. Som-
merville, J. W. Grier.
(4) Natural and Exact Sciences — H. E. Gurney, C. H. Little.
(5) Mental and Moral Philosophy, Logic and Rhetoric— W. H.
Frazer, W. B. S. Chandler.
(6) Theology — A. S. Johnson, W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., C. H. Rowan.
(7) Church History— J. M. Walker, W. H. Matheson.
(8) Church Government and Sacraments — M. E. Peabody, R. S.
Burwell.
TRUSTEES OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
1. Davidson — R. A. Dunn, H. N. Pharr — Terms expire 1932; C. R.
Nisbet, J. P. Matheson, W. H. Belk — Terms expire 1930.
2. Queens— McAlister Carson, Mrs. C. C. Hook, Mrs. Cameron Mor-
rison, J. L. Choate, P. S. Gilchrist — Terms expire 1931 ; E. A.
McCausland, J. W. McClung, Hunter Marshall— Terms expire
1930; J. Arthur Henderson, E. E. Jones, A. J. Crowell— Terms
expire 1929.
McAlister Carson is chairman.
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Brainard Church
October 22 and 23, 1929
ADJOURNED MEETINGS
At First Church, Charlotte, N. C.
September 9, 1929
November 19, 1929
CALLED MEETING
Rocky Mount, N. C, Oct. 9, 1929
(at Synod)
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DIRECTORY
Rev. T. M. Stribling, Moderator Rockingham, N. C
Rev. J. G. Garth, Stated Clerk Charlotte, N. C.
Rev. J. W. Stork, Permanent Clerk Mt. Gilead, N. C.
Trustees of Presbytery — H. C. Alexander, Hunter Marshall, Jr., J. L.
Choate.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Presbytery's Home Missions — J. M, Walker, C. G. Long, W. B. S.
Chandler, C. H. Rowan, Lynn R. Walker, C H. Little, F. S. Neal.
W. H. Belk, T. J. Smith, C. P. Brown, W. E. Price, Dr. R. H.
Lafferty, J. F. Hardie.
PERMANENT COMMITTEES
1. Foreign Missions — E. G. Gammon, C. G. Long, A. F. Doty, W. L.
WalHs, M. B. Speir.
2. Assembly's "Home Missions — J. F. Hardie, C. H. Little, A. S.
Anderson, Jno. B. Ross.
3. Christian Education and Ministerial Relief — J. W. Grier, W. B. S.
Chandler, J. W. McClung, J. M. Oldham.
4. Religious Education — General Chairman : S. B. Lyerly.
(1) Children's Division: W. M. Wilcox, W. E. Price.
(2) Young Pepole's Division : E. A. Dillard, M. E. Peabody, F. H.
Bierman.
(3) Sunday School Extension : M. B. Prince, C. M. Hutchinson.
(4) Leadership Training: B. F. Yandell, G. M. Beaty, Dr. R .H.
Lafferty.
5: Bible Cause— Q. N. Huneycutt, J. W. Stork.
6. Synod's Home Missions— L E. Wallace, A. L. McDuffie, C. H
Caldwell, D. S. Monteith.
7. Orphans' Home— W. W. Akers, R. W. Culbertson, Wm. Ander-
son, W. A. Jamison.
8. Schools and Colleges— C. R. Nisbet, L E. Wallace, B. F. Yandell.
J. R. Bridges, Beatty Faires, G. M. Rose, Jr.
(Continued on back inside cover)
(MINUTES
of
Mecklenburg
Presbytery
120th STATED SESSION
Brainard Church
October 22 and 23, 1929
ADJOURNED MEETINGS
At First Church, Charlotte, N. C.
September 9, 1929
November 19, 1929
CALLED MEETING
Rocky Mount, N. C, Oct. 9, 1929
(at Synod)
PRESS OF
PRESBYTERIAN STANDARD
PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
ADJOURNED MEETING
Presbytery met in adjourned session in First Church,
Charlotte, on Monday, September 9, 1929, at 2 p. m.
Rev. W. H. Frazer, Moderator, called Presbytery to
order and constituted it with prayer.
The following were present :
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Ministers: W. H. Frazer, Q. N. Huneycutt, W. H. John-
ston, A. A. Walker, J. C. Grier, R. S. Burwell, J. W. Grier,
A. S. Johnson, L. P. Burney, E, A. Dillard, G. C. Huntington,
S. B. Lyerly, L. H. Query, J. M. Walker, W. B. S. Chandler,
R. W. Culbertson, M. E. Peabody, C. C Beam, E. G. Gam-
mon, W. T. Smith, W. H. Matheson, C R. Nisbet, T. H.
Mitchell, A. F. Doty, S. B. McLean, B. F. Yandell, J. G.
Garth.
Ruling Elders: W. E. Price, Caldwell Memorial; R. C.
Freeman, Steele Creek ; T. J. Smith, Charlotte First ; W. B.
Blount, Plaza; J. P. Belk, Beulah, O. W. Potts, Banks;
D. E. Clark, Pageland.
The commission to install Rev. W. W. Akers at West
Avenue, Charlotte, reported its duties duly performed and
was dismissed.
INSTALLATION OF W. W. AKERS
The Commission of Mecklenburg Presbytery appointed to in-
stall the Rev, Wm. Wirt Akers at West Avenue Church, Charlotte,
N. C, met at the church June 9, 1929, 4 p. m., and performed all
duty according to the Form of Church Government.
There were present the Rev. A. S. Johnson, D.D., the Rev. Wm.
H. Frazer, D.D., Rev. C. W. Sommerville, D.D., and Ruling Elder
W. A. Jamison.
The Commission was convened and prayer was offered by Dr.
Frazer. Dr. Johnson presided and preached the sermon on Prayer,
Luke 18:1, and propounded the questions.
Dr. Sommerville charged the pastor ; Dr. Frazer charged the
people. The Commission adjourned after the benediction by Rev.
W. W. Akers. C. W. SOMMERVILLE,
Clerk of the Commission.
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Commission to ordain and install Rev. W. C. Cooper at
Oakboro, Locust and Stanfield reported its duties performed
and was dismissed.
COMMISSION TO ORDAIN AND INSTALL W. C. COOPER
Commission appointed by Presbytery to ordain and install Rev.
W. C. Cooper met at Oakboro Presbyterian Church Sunday, June
9, 1929; was duly constiuted with prayer, there being present Rev.
A. A. Walker, chairman, Dr. R. S. Burwell, Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine
and Elder W. E. Price, acting as secretary.
Rev. A. A. Walker preached sermon at Oakboro and propounded
questions to pastor and people and Rev. W. C. Cooper was ordained
and installed. Dr. R. S. Burwell charged pastor and Elder W. E.
Price charged the congregation.
Commission adjourned to meet at Stanfield Church at 2:30
where Rev. W. C. Cooper was installed. Dr. R. S. Burwell preached
the sermon. Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine charged the pastor and W. E.
Price charged the congregation.
Commission adjourned to meet at Locust Church at 7:30 p. m.,
where Rev. W. C. Cooper was installed. Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine
preached the sermon. Rev. A. A. Walker charged the pastor, and
Elder W. E. Price charged the people. After prayer and benedic-
tion, Commission adjourned, W. E. PRICE,
Secretary.
The commission to install Rev. J. S. McFall at Morven,
Lylesville and Camden reported its duties performed, and
was dismissed.
ORDINATION OF J. S. McFALL
Ordination and installation of Rev. J. S. McFall. Commission
met at Morven Church, June 2, 11 a. m. Rev. J. S. McFall was duly
ordained by prayer and the laying on of hands of Presbytery, and
installed as pastor of Morven Church.
Commission opened with prayer. Present were A. A. Walker,
R. J. Mcllwain, J. A. Caligan, ministers, and John E. McLauchlin,
elder. A. A. Walker was chosen chairman, presided and propounded
the constitutional questions. J. A. Caligan was chosen clerk.
A. A. Walker preached sermon ; J. A. Caligan charged pastor,
and R. J. Mcllwain charged the congregation. Commission adjourned
to meet at Lilesville at 3 p. m.
Commission met at Lilesville Church, 3 p. m., and Rev. J. S.
McFall was installed pastor of that church. J. A. Caligan preached
sermon; R. J. Mcllwaine charged pastor, and A. A. Walker charged
congregation. Commission adjourned to meet at Camden Church
at 8 p. m.
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Commission met at Camden Church, 8 p. m., and Rev. J. S.
McFall was installed pastor of said church. R. J. Mcllwain preached
sermon; A. A. Walker charged pastor, and J. A. Caligan charged
the congregation. Qosed with benediction by J. S. McFall.
The work of the Commission was made especially interesting
by the presence of Brother McFall's mother, who attended all the
services.
A. A. WALKER, Chairman.
J. A. CALIGAN, Clerk of Com.
The commissio nto ordain Mr. LeRoy P. Burney at
Sugaw Creek reported its duties performed and was dis-
missed.
COMMISSION TO ORDAIN L. P. BURNEY
The Commission to ordain and install Leroy P. Burney as pastor
of Sugaw Creek Congregation met at the said church on Sunday,
June 2, at 11 a. m. The Commission was organized with prayer.
The members present were Revs. J. G. Garth, J. R. Bridges, and
C C Beam, and Ruling Elder C. H. Caldwell. Rev. W. H. Frazer
joined the meeting later,
A sermon was preached by Rev. J. G. Garth, who also presided
The candidate answered the constitutional questions propounded to
him, and the congregation also answered the questions propounded
to them in the affirmative,
Mr. Burney was then ordained by the laying on of hands. The
prayer was offered by Rev. J, R. Bridges, D.D,
Rev. C. C. Beam delivered the charge to the pastor, and Rev.
W. H, Frazer, D.D., delivered the charge to the congregation.
The Commission then adjourned with the benediction by the
newly ordained minister. Rev, L, P, Burney,
The above is a true record of the proceedings,
J, G. GARTH, Chairman.
Commission to ordain and install Mr. M. B. Prince at
Peachland and Polkton reported its duties duly performed
and was dismissed.
ORDINATION OF M. B. PRINCE
The Commission to ordain and install M, B, Prince met at
Polkton, June 16, 1929, and Mr, Prince was duly ordained and
installed at Polkton at 11 a. m., June 16, and later in the day
installed at Peachland. W. H. Bel kwas added to the Commission and
was the only elder present.
The Commission was : A. A. Walker, J. A. Caligan, with C. C.
Beam and J. W, Stork as alternates. Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine was added
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to the Commission; Ruling Elder W. E. Price with R. L. Martin,
alternate.
The services were as follows : Ordination and installation serv-
ice at- Polkton, June 16 at 11 :00 a. m.
Sermon — A. A. Walker.
Charge to Pastor — J. A. Caligan.
Charge to Congregation — R. J. Mcllwaine.
Installation service at Peachland, June 16, 3 :00 p. m.
Sermon — J. A. Caligan.
Charge to Pastor — A. A. Walker.
Charge to Congregation — J. A. Caligan.
Rev. F. H. Barron, D.D., of the Presbytery of Blue-
stone was introduced and invited to sit as a visiting brother
Presbytery voted to extend to Dr. C. R. Nisbet its
sympathy in his bereavement in the death of his wife, Mrs.
Ola Jones Nisbet.
Prayer was offered by Dr. Frazer in his behalf.
The request from the Country Church Department, of
the General Assembly to appoint a committee on the Coun-
try Church Work was referred to Committee on Home
Missions.
Rev. A. A. Walker reported his attendance on meeting of
General Assembly at Montreat. The report was accepted
and his diligence commended.
Candidate J. A. Mclntyre asked that Presbytery license
him to preach the gospel with a view to ordination.
After due discussion Presbytery voted to proceed with
examination with view to licensure under the regulation for
extraordinary cases, in view of his satisfactory exercise of
his gifts as a lay-worker for several years in this Presby-
tery..
Dr. C. W. Sommerville examined the candidate on ex-
perimental religion and motives for seeking the ministry
which was sustained as satisfactory.
Motion was made and carried that the examination on
scholastic studies he omitted on account of the fact that the
candidate had not had a college course.
Dr. C. W. Sommerville also conducted examination on
theology, which was sustained as satisfactory.
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Rev. J. M. Walker conducted the examination on Church
History, which was sustained.
Rev. M. E. Peabody examined the candidate in Church
Government and the Sacraments. The examination was
sustained as satisfactory.
Examination in the original languages of the Old and
New Testament was waived inasmuch as the candidate had
not had opportunity of studying them.
Examination on the English Bible was conducted by
Rev. J. M. Walker. The examination was sustained as sat-
isfactory.
The motion was made and carried that the Greek Exe-
gesis and Latin Thesis and the Popular Lecture be omitted
as no subjects had been assigned.
The examination was sustained as a whole and the can-
didate was duly licensed.
Prayer was offered by Rev. F. H. Barron, D.D.
Mr. Bruce Peabody presented testimonials from the
Session of Westminster Presbyterian Church, asking to be
received under the care of Presbytery as a candidate for the
gospel ministry.
After the usual examination and the charge by the mod-
erator he was duly enrolled as a candidate for the ministry.
Prayer was then offered by the moderator.
The commission to organize a church at Nevins reported
its work performed in due form, and was discharged.
NEW CHURCH AT NEVINS
The Commission appointed to organize a church at Nevins beg
to report :
The Commission met, by appointment, at Nevins Community
House, Sunday afternoon, May 19, 1929, at 3 :30 o'clock. Present .
Rev. E. A. Dillard, Rev. Chas R. Nisbet and Rev. C. C Beam, with
RuHng Elders Dr. J. R. Alexander and Walter L. WalHs. The Com-
mission w^as constituted with prayer. After an appropriate sermon
by Dr. Nisbet, the Commission proceeded to organize a church,
according to the Book of Church Order, to be known as "Nevins
Presbyterian Church," with the following members :
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By Certificate :
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Worth, from Tenth Avenue Presbyterian
Church.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Auten, from Tenth Avenue Presbyterian
Church.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Stewart, from Tenth Avenue Presbyterian
Church.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Kidd, from Hopewell Presbyterian Church.
Mr. and Mrs. C. T. StalHngs, from Philadelphia Presbyterian
Church.
X. L. Stallings, from Philadelphia Presbyterian Church.
Mr. W. R. Grier, from St. Paul's Presbyterian Church.
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Meeks, from the Methodist Church.
Mr. J. S. Prime, from the Methodist Church.
Mr. and Mrs. C E. Martin, from the Methodist Church.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McCurley, from the Baptist Church.
Thelma McCurley, from the Baptist Church.
On profession of faith :
Mrs. J. S. Prime.
Sara Thomas Auten.
J. A. Auten, J. H. Stewart and R. W. Meeks were elected,
ordained and installed Ruhng Elders, and C. W. Kidd, C. T. Stallings
and G. H. Worth were elected, ordained and installed Deacons.
E. A. DILLARD, Chairman.
CHAS. R. NISBET.
C C. BEAM.
J. R. ALEANDER.
WALTER L. WALLIS.
Rev. E. A. Dillard offered his resignation as Secretary of
Stewardship. The resignation was accepted.
Rev. S. B. McLean was nominated as Secretary of Stew-
ardship. Upon his earnest request it was decided to refer the
nomination to the Nominating Committee and that they
bring a report at the Fall Meeting of Presbytery.
Presbytery requested Mr. Dillard to make the report at
the Fall Meeting of Presbytery.
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Dr. Barron was given the privileges of the floor to pre-
sent the Ministers' Annuity Fund.
Presbytery adjourned with prayer after the reading of
the minutes.
W. H. FRAZER, Moderator.
Q. N. HUNEYCUTT, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
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CALLED MEETING
Rocky Mount, N. C, October 9, 1929.
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in called session at the
First Presbyterian Church at 1 :45 p. m. during the meeting
of Synod.
The Presbytery was called to order by the Moderator,
Rev. W. H. Frazer, D.D., and constituted with prayer led
by Rev. J. M. Walker.
The following were present :
ROLL
Ministers: J. G. Garth, J. W. Stork, J. M. Walker, W. H.
Frazer, D.D., Lynn R. Walker, D.D., C. G. Long, W. B.
Mcllwaine, D.D., W. H. Matheson, C. R. Nisbet, D.D., S. B.
McLean, L. P. Burney, E. G. Gammon, D.D., A. T. Taylor,
J. R. Bridges, D.D.
Elders: W. L. Summerville, Thomasboro ; R. A. Grier,
Steele Creek; W. H. Belk, Monroe.
The Presbytery was called to act upon the request of
Rev. W. H. Matheson for dissolution of the pastoral rela-
tion between himself and the Thomasboro Church, and the
church concurring, the relation was dissolved.
Rev. W. H. Matheson was granted a letter of transfer
to Nashville Presbytery.
The minutes were read and approved.
Presbytery adjourned with the benediction by the Mod-
erator.
W. H. FRAZER, Moderator.
J. W. STORK, Permanent Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
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MINUTES OF FALL SESSION
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in its 120th Stated Session
at Brainard Church, near Rockingham, N. C, at 11 a. m.,
on Ortober 22, 1929. The retiring Moderator, Rev. W. H.
Frazer, D.D., of Charlotte, supply pastor of Mallard Creek,
presided and preached the opening sermon from the text,
Romans 8:35, on the subject, "The Security of Believers."
At the close of the sermon, the regular communion serv-
ice was conducted, at which Revs. J. R. Bridges, D.D., and
C. W. Sommerville, D.D., officiated.
After the communion service the roll was called and the
following found present :
ROLL
Ministers: J. R. Bridges, A. R. Shaw, J. W. Grier, R. J.
Mcllwaine, C. H. Little, J. G. Garth, J. W. Stork, J. M.
Walker, W. H. Frazer, Q. N. Huneycutt, W. B. Mcllwaine,
S. B. Lyerly, T. F. Huneycutt, W. B. S. Chandler, A. A.
Walker, C. G. Long, C. W. Sommerville, Lynn R. Walker,
W. H. Johnston, C. H. Rowan, T. M. Stribling, J. A.
Caligan, A. L. McDuffie, T. H. Mitchell, W. C. Copeland,
J. C Grier, W. G. Thomas, E. A. Dillard, A. T. Taylor,
J. B. Reily, W. C Cooper, J. S. McFall, M. B. Prince.
Churches Represented: Albemarle Jas. P. Sifford ;
Brainard, D. A. McGill; Caldwell Memorial, F. H. Bierman ;
Camden, C. H. Trexler ; Cameronian, C. W. McLendon ;
Candor, N. P. Coppedge, M.D. ; Central Steel Creek, R. R.
Grier; Charlotte Second, W. F. Moore; Cook's Memorial,
Wm. D. McClure; Hamlet, C. G. Pepper; Mark's Creek,
A. P. Williams; Marston, A. W. McKay; McGee, Edw. G.
Hayes ; Midway, G. A. McRae ; Monroe First, F. H. Wolfe ;
Morgan Memorial, S. W. Smith; Mt. Gilead, R. A. McRae;
Mulberry, H. W. Bigham ; Myers Park, T. M. Glasgow;
Oakboro, F. C. Efird; Paw Creek, R. W. Summerville ;
Peachland, T. V. Howell; Pee Dee, J. V. Ussery; Plaza,
H. E. Garrison; Philadelphia, C. S. Harkey; Roberdell, W.
T. Wicker; Rockingham, J. D. Cameron; Rourk's Chapel,
D. C. Currie ; Siler, A. C. Penegar ; Steele Creek, L. W.
Query ; Sugaw Creek, C. W. Robinson ; Tenth Avenue, A. R.
Shaw, Jr. ; Thomasboro, W. L. Summerville ; Troy, S. H.
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McCall, D.D.S.; Wadesboro, J. E. Hart, M.D.; Walkersville,
S. H. McCain; Waxhaw, R. J. Belk; Williams Memorial,
W. J. Williams; Amity, C. M. Hutchinson; Norman, A. N.
Cagle.
Rev. T. M. Stribling was elected Moderator. The rules
suspended and he was elected by acclamation.
Rev. C. G. Long was elected Temporary Clerk.
Mr. W. L. McLean, of the Brainard Church, was in-
troduced and presented the Presbytery a gavel made from
wood used in the Roberdell Mill No. 2.
On motion the gavel was given to the Moderator at the
close of the meeting.
The Committee on Arrangements rendered the follow-
ing report which was adopted :
COMMITTEE ON ARRANGEMENTS
We recommend the following hours for the sessions of Presby-
tery : 9 :00 a. m. to 12 :30 p. m. ; 2 :00 p. m,. to 5 :00 p. m. ; 7 :30 p. m.
to adjournment at will.
We recommend further that Dr. W. H. Frazer be granted ten
minutes during the Tuesday morning session in which to present
the interests of Queens College.
That Rev. Lacy I, MofTett, D.D., be heard in an address on
Foreign Missions at the Tuesday evening session, and that the sec-
ond order of the day at the evening meeting be the report of the
Committee on Men's Work.
That Presbytery hear the Presbyterial sermon by Rev. C. H.
Little at 11 :00 o'clock Wednesday morning.
That at 2:00 o'clock Wednesday afternoon representatives of the
Davidson College Y. M. C. A. be given fifteen minutes.
JNO. B. REILY,
D. A. McGILL,
Committee.
Recess was taken until two p. m. Presbytery was led in
prayer by Rev. J. G. Garth!
Tuesday Afternoon
Presbytery reconvened at 2 p. m.
:> The Moderator appointed the following committees :
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Standing Committees
Devotional: J. B. Reily and D. A. McGill.
Bills and Overtures: W. H. Frazer, S. H. Wolf, T. F.
Huneycutt.
Judicial: J. R. Bridges, M. B. Prince, C. W. Robinson.
Presbytery's Home Missions: J. A. Caligan, W. C.
Cooper, C. H. Trexler.
Calls and Supplies: W. B. Mcllwaine, W. B. S. Chandler,
R. W. Summerville.
Records of Presbytery: W. G. Thomas, C. M. Hutchin-
son.
Leave of Absence: A. T. Taylor, A. P. Williams.
Minutes of General Asembly: Lynn R. Walker, J. S. Mc-
Fall, A. W. McKay and Q. N. Huneycutt.
Presbytery's Asessments: C. H. Rowan, J. P. Sifford,
J. B. Reily, C. W. McLendon.
Nominations: Moderator, J. G. Garth, W. H. Frazer,
F. H. Bierman.
Thanks: A. L. McDuffie, W. L, Summerville.
The following Committee on the Ministers' Annuity
Fund was appointed: McAlister Carson, J. M. Oldham,
T. M. Glasgow, J. L. Choate, and R. A. Dunn.
Various communications were read by the Stated Clerk
and referred to the proper committees.
The Stated Clerk reported that the assessment of Synod
had been paid from the Presbyterial Tax Fund.
Rev. E. R. Clegg, of the local Methodist Church, was
introduced and invited to sit as a visiting brother.
Rev. Lacy L Moffett, D.D., of Transylvania Presbytery,
one of our missionaries to China, was also introduced and
invited to sit as a visiting brother.
Rev. W. H. Johnston and W. T. Wicker were appointed
a special committee to consider the report concerning the
Alexander Fund for the education of Ministerial Students.
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Dr. W. H. Frazer, president of Queens College, was
heard for ten minutes in the interest of that institution.
The report of the Committee on Sabbath and Family
Religion submitted its report which was received and pend-
ing action, Dr. Frazer spoke concerning this cause. The
recommendation of the committee was adopted as follows :
SABBATH AND FAMILY RELIGION
STANDING RULE
We recommend that thirty m.inutes be allowed for the presen-
tation and discussion of the report on the Sabbath and Family at
the fall meetings of Presbytery.
The Committee on Evangelism submitted its report,
pending action Presbytery heard Ruling Elder T. M. Glas-
gow, of Myers Park Church, in a splendid discussion on
Personal Evangelism. The report was adopted :
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON EVANGELISM
The keynote of the great commission given by our Lord to
the church was "Evangelism." The apostles were instructed to
preach "that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures ;
and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day accord-
ing to the Scriptures." They were to bear witness to the fact that
Christ "is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto
God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them."
And this sacred trust has come through the years to the church,
which is his representative upon the earth. The glory and the power
of the church, in any period of the world, is in the faithful preach-
ing of the Gospel of the Son of God. For this the church lives ; "and
the highest himself shall establish her."
The world's greatest need is the salvation that comes through
our Lord Jesus Christ, and which can be given by no other means
than the preaching of his word. If men are "Saved to the utter-
most" all the other human problems that confront us will find their
solution. The church must recognize the imperative in the command
of our Lord to preach the Gospel. It is not a matter of personal
convenience or inclination; or should it depend upon times and sea-
sons ; it is the obligation and responsibility to the command itself.
Yet, it is an obedience that is to be quickened by a personal love
for men, and a passion for souls.
The Assembly's work committee, in a recent meeting, recogniz-
ing the need of a greater evangelistic fervor in the church, took
action to call the attention of the church to the utterance of the
General Assembly at its last meeting relative to evangelism. In sub-
stance the Assembly urges that conferences on the subject of
evangelism be held in every Presbytery at its Fall meeting; that
the whole church be called upon for special prayer on behalf of our
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evangelistic endeavors ; and that an evangelistic program be adopted
by the Presbytery that will reach every church within its bounds.
It is evident that evangelistic fire must first of all be kindled in the
hearts of the ministers, and then upon the altars of the church.
Your Committee on Evangelism has been endeavoring, for the
past few years to bring these three things urged by the Assembly
to the attention of the church, through the Presbytery. And it is
with humble gratitude to our Lord that we report to you some meas-
ure of success in our efforts. For the first six months of the year,
according to the reports received by us from the churches, there
have been 50 meetings held, over a period of 430 days, with 324
professions of faith, 227 additions to the church by profession of
faith, and Id additions by letter; making a total of 303 additions
to the church. Seventeen other churches have reported no meet-
ings held as yet; but most of these are planning meetings for later
in the year.
In view of the tides of worldliness sweeping over the land, and
which has even entered into the church itself, and the great eco-
nomic unrest, we would urge the churches of the Presbytery to be
diligent in their evangelistic services, whether public or personal.
We would not presume to suggest to you the plan that you should
folow; but so long as the promise stands "That if two of you shall
agree upon the earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it
shall be done for them of my Father which is in Heaven" just so
long do we believe that the church as a congregation should meet
in special seasons of prayer and definite appeal to men.
We recommend:
\. That each pastor be urged to hold one or more conferences
with the Lord and the officers of his church to formulate an evangel-
istic program.
2. That if practicable that a series of evangelistic services be
held in every church, at least once a year.
3. That we call upon all our people to give themselves to earn-
est prayer that God may arouse the evangelistic passion in our
souls ; and on behalf of the meetings that are being held, at the
time they are being held, that God may give them the victory.
A. A. WALKER,
Chairman.
By a rising vote Presbytery expressed its appreciation
to Mr. Glasgow for his address.
The report on the Bible Cause was submitted and was
received as information.
The Subcommittee on Leadership Training of the Relig-
ious Education Committee submitted its report which was
received and its recommendations adopted as follows :
b
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REPORT ON LEADERSHIP TRAINING
Your Sub-Committee on Religious Education having charge of
the Leadership Training work of the Presbytery submits the fol-
lowing report :
Pursuant to the recommendations to the Committee by Presby-
tery last Fall that four young ladies be employed for the summer
months to carry on Teacher Training classes and conduct Daily
Vacation Bible schools throughout the Presbytery, your Committee
secured the services of the following young ladies : Misses Josephine
Edwards, Ashe Lane, Marie Brogdon, Lucille Currie.
These young ladies did a most excellent work in the Presbytery,
only words of praise came from the various churches where they
labored. They conducted the D. V. B. schools in the following
churches, each school continuing for the period of twelve days each :
Norman, Ellerbe, Hamlet, West Avenue, Seversville, Williams Memo-
rial, Thomasboro, Hopewell, Newells. One conducted at Amity was
for one week only.
There was a total enrollment in these ten schools of 903, with
80 volunteer workers assisting. No credits were earned in Teacher
Training classes.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Receipts
Balance from last year $ 49.26
Mr. W. E. Price, Treas. Home Missions 300.00
Free Will Offerings 112.61
Rev. J. G. Garth, Treas. of Presbytery 250.00
$711.87
Disbursements
Salaries $420.00
Books and Supplies 98.88
TraveHng Expenses of Workers 67.29
Postage, Telegrams, etc. 6.20
$592.37
Balance on hand $119.50
The Committee offers the following recommendations :
1. In view of the fact that so few applications are voluntarily
made to the Comimittee, and the expense so great to Presbytery,
we recommend that this work be discontinued for at least one year.
2, That all churches take advantage of the Standard Teacher
Training School which is conducted annually in Charlotte.
Respectfully submitted,
B. F. YANDELL.
Rev. S. J. Hood presented a certificate of transfer from
Catawba Presbytery of the Associate Reformed Presbyte-
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rian Church, and was introduced to Presbytery. He was ex-
amined on his personal piety and the examination was sus-
tained. The examination on theology was also sustained.
The examination on Church Government and the Sacra-
ments was also sustained as satisfactory. And having an-
swered in the affirmative the questions from the Book of
Church Order for Ministers entering our Church from other
denominations, the examination as a whole was sustained
and his name ordered enrolled as a member of Mecklen-
burg Presbytery after signing the Covenant.
A call from Philadelphia Church for the services of Rev.
S. J. Hood at $2,000 and a manse was found in order and the
call was placed in his hands. He accepted the call and the
following commission was appointed to install him Novem-
ber 3, 1929, at 3 :00 p. m. : Rev. W. H. Frazer, to preside,
Rev. S. B. Lyerly to preach the sermon, Rev. Q. N. Huney-
cutt to charge the pastor, Ruling elders C. S. Harkey, J. W.
McCain, the latter to charge the people.
Rev. W. B. Mcllwaine D.D., reported his attendance
upon the General Assembly in Montreat. The report was
received and his diligence commended.
Dr. Bridges addressed Presbytery in the interests of the
Presbyterian Standard.
The Committee to examine the books of the Alexander
Fund submitted the following report which was adopted :
Your Committee appointed to examine the books of the Treas-
urer of the Alexander Fund beg leave to report the performance
of that duty. We have checked the entries on this account for the
period from Oct. 25, 1928, to Oct. 23, 1929, together with the notes
and vouchers covering same. The record has been neatly and cor-
rectly kept.
Respectfully submitted,
W. H. JOHNSTON.
W. T. WICKER.
Presbytery took recess for supper, 5 :30 p. m.
Tuesday Evening
Presbytery reconvened at 7 :30 in the Methodist church.
The Moderator turned the meeting over to the Foreign Mis-
sion Committee, under the leadership of Rev. C. G. Long,
who presented the report and introduced Rev. Lacy L
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Moffett, D.D., of the China Mission, who delivered a splen-
did address on China.
The report was received and the recommendations
adopted :
FOREIGN MISSION COMMITTEE
Recommendations
1. That the Presbytery at this meeting engage in special prayer
for such an outpouring of the spirit of our churches as will enable
the Executive Committee to send to all our Misssions the desper-
ately needed re-enforcements for which they are pleading, and will
bring our who! church into a deeper sympathy with Him on whose
great heart lay ever closest and heaviest the burden of the unreached.
2. That churches, societies, and individuals assume, wherever
practicable, definite responsibility for definite parts of the Foreign
Mission work.
3. That ministers give special attention this year to the mis-
sionary education program of their churches, noting the aid offered
them by the Foreign Mission Educational Department in working
out better means of keeping their churches informed with regard
to Foreign Missions.
4. That all our church leaders utilize to the utmost the Foreign
Mission programs, literature, stereopticon slides, and visits from
foreign missionaries, offered by the Educational Department, in
order that missions may be given its scriptural place in all depart-
ments of our church life.
5. That during January, 1930, every church in the General As-
sembly organize a Church School of Missions, using the approved
Foreign Mission study books for each age group,
6. That churches co-operate with the chairman in arranging
with the Foreign Mission office for missionary itineraries as often
as opportunity affords.
7. That Sunday Schools focus their attention this year upon the
Foreign Mission Educational Work, designating their Foreign Mis-
sion contributions to the $100,000 being raised in the Sunday Schools
for this work, such offerings to be credited to the local church
Foreign Mission budget.
8. That Young People's Societies focus their attention this year
upon the rehabilitation of our medical work in China, designating
their Foreign Mission offerings to the $10,000 being raised in the
societies for this work, such offerings to be credited to the local
church Foreign Mission budget.
9. That Presbytery urge its pastors and churches to utilize to
the utmost the month of January and the Self-Denial Week, Jan-
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uary 26-February 2, which the Assembly has appointed for church-
wide observance in behalf of this great cause.
EDGAR G. GAMMON, Chairman.
Rev. W. B. S. Chandler led in prayer for the Foreign
Mission cause.
As the second order of the evening the report of the
Department of Men's Work was considered.
The report was presented by the chairman, Rev. Lynn R.
Walker, D.D. Prayer for the men's work was led by Rev.
W. B. Mcllwaine, D.D.
Prof. W. D. Loy, President of Steele Creek Men-of-the-
Church, and John E. McLaughlin, president of the Men-of-
the-Church of Richmond County, spoke on Men's Work.
The report was adopted and is as follows :
REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF MEN'S WORK
The Department of Men's Work of our Assembly has completed
five years of work under the present plan of having an all-time
Secretary in the promotion of the Men-of-the-Church organization.
If progress during these years seems to have been slow it
should be remembered the task has been great : a literature had to
be created, Synodical and Presbyterial committees secured, men had
to be trained to be leaders, pastors and sessions aroused and inter-
ested and their approval obtained, and, just as the Woman's Work
had years of difficulty in displacing the old societies with the Auxil-
iary so the same difficulty has been encountered in promoting the
Men-of-the-Church. The Church Club has given way, where it has
given way at all, slowly and reluctantly to this organization which
has for its object the larger and more comprehensive purpose to
organize all the men of the church in Christian service and fellow-
ship, to promote among them the study of the Bible and of the
history, standards, agencies, and aims of our church, and to stimu-
late and enlist them in witnessing for Christ.
When we consider there fore the largeness of the task and tre
difficulties that had to be encountered we realize these years have
not been idle years nor have they been unfruitful. Hundreds of
churches have been organized, and some most remarkable develop-
ments in Men's Work are being reported in individual churches
and in some Presbyteries. A splendid literature has been prepared —
a literature that is often fascinating in interest and in the clearness
with which the plans and advantages of the organization have been
set forth. Synods and Presbyteries are now awake to the impor-
tance of the organization and are appointing committees with the
title Department of Men's Work, thus conforming to the Assem-
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bly's. Through Conventions and Training Schools many men have
been trained for leaders. And it has been demonstrated to the satis-
faction of the church at large that wherever the Men-of-the-Church
has been given even a reasonable chance by pastor and men its
results were greater in the life of the local church and more valu-
able to the Kingdom task than those using some plan of their own,
or any independent plan. Organizations following the Men-of-the-
Church plans have shown a larger proportion of definite things done
and a more constructive attitude toward the life and work of our
church.
The definiteness of the organization in its program to reach men,
to teach men, and to train men in fellowship and service, and the
success attained where it has been faithfully and intelligently tried
should stimulate the churches of Mecklenburg Presbytery to a
more careful and prayerful study of this organization and to a more
vital appreciation of its possibilities for our men, and through them
to the Kingdom of our Lord.
Your Committee has been studying the organization. Your chair-
man has attended one conference. We have accomplished little in
things seen. We have made plans for promoting the work. Some of
these we have held in abeyance for a more favorable time. We
have arranged this conference this evening hoping it may be the
bginning of a larger interest in the Presbytery and put us in a
favorable position in promoting the work. We realize almost every-
thing depends upon the pastor and then through him upon the
intelligent interest and approval of sessions.
We would therefore make the following recommendations and
ask for them your hearty approval and adoption :
1. That the plans and policies of the Department of Men's
Work of our Assembly be approved.
2. That the Men-of-the-Church organization be given a place
upon the docket of the sessoins of all churches at an early date
for the careful, thorugh and prayerful study of the organization;
and preparatory to this meeting, literature be ordered from the
Secretary, Dr. J. E. Purcell, Henry Grady Building, Atlanta.
3. That a committee on organization be appointed by sessions
to make further study of plans for beginning the organization, and
to set up the organization whenever it shall seem practical according
to the constitution.
4. That small churches composing a group, when it is not pos-
sible to set up the organization in each church, be organized as one
organization with a working group in each church of the group.
5. That we request Dr. Purcell, Secretary of Men's Work, to
arrange at least one Training School in our Presbytery.
6. That we pledge our support to this Committee in the pro-
motion of Men's Work throughout our Presbytery.
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7. That we express our approval and appreciation of the Men-
of-the-Church organization of Richmond County.
Respectfully submitted,
LYNN R. WALKER, Chm.
L E. WALLACE,
L. P. BURNEY,
J. E. McLaughlin,
C. p. BROWN,
H. J. SPENCER,
p. S. GILCHRIST,
T. M. GLASGOW,
M. E. TROTTER,
J. P. MARSH,
Committee.
The report of the Executive Committee of Home Mis-
sions was presented through its chairman Rev. J. M.
Walker, w^hich was referred to the Standing Committee on
Home Missions.
Presbytery adjourned until 9 a. m. Wednesday.
The closing prayer was led by Rev. L. I. Mofifett, D.D.
SECOND DAY
Presbytery reconvened at 9:00 a. m. The Devotional
period was conducted by Rev. J. M. Walker.
The minutes of yesterday's sessions were read and
approved.
The Commitee on Calls and supplies submitted the fol-
lowing report which was adopted :
REPORT OF COMMITTEES ON CALLS AND SUPPLIES
Into the hands of the Committee has come a request from Rev.
Wm. P. Chedester that he be permitted to labor outside the bounds
of the Presbytery until the spring meeting, pursuing certain lines of
study. We recommend that the request be granted.
We have a request from the session of Mallard Creek Presby-
terion Church that they be permitted to supply Dr. Wm. H. Frazer
as Stated Supply until the spring meeting of Presbytery. Also a
like request from the Hopev^ell Church for the services of Dr. C. W.
Sommerville. A request from Williams Memorial Church for the
services as Stated Supply of Rev. A. R. Shaw until the spring
meeting. We recommend that these requests be granted.
We have calls from the Beulah, Pageland and Salem Churches
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for the pastoral services of Licentiate J. A. Mclntyre, Beulah
Church paying $250, Pageland $180, Salem $180, each in regular
monthly payments, and the use of a manse. The Home Missions
Committee will supplement these amounts with $1,200 in regular
monthly payments. We recommend that the calls be found in order,
and that they be placed in his hands.
We recommend the following order for the ordination and installa-
tion of Licentiate J. A. Mclntyre :
That his examination for licensure be accepted for ordination,
and that a commission be appointed consisting of Ministers A. A.
Walker, Chairman, R. J. Mcllwaine and W. G. Thomas, with M. B.
Prince as alternate for any, and Elder W. E. Price, with D. E. Clark
as alternate, to ordain Mr. Mclntyre in the Beulah Church and to
install him as pastor on the first Sunday of November at 11 :00
o'clock ; that the same commission install Mr. Mclntyre as pastor
of the Salem Church at 3 :00 p. m., and in the Pageland Church at
7 :30 p. m. on the same day, the Chairman to arrange the various
parts of the service.
For the Committee,
WM. B. McILWAINE.
Presbytery voted to accept the examination of Licentiate
Mclntyre for licensure as satisfactory for his ordination.
Licentiate J. A. Mclntyre accepted the calls extended to
him from the Pageland, Salem and Beulah churches, and
the commission was appointed t oordain and install him
as indicated in the report above.
The Committee on Assessments submitted the foUow^-
ing report which was adopted :
PRESBYTERIAL ASSESSMENTS
List of Delinquent Churches
Your Committee on Presbytery's Assessments would respectfully
submit the following:
The following is a list of the churches which have not paid
their Presbyterial tax to date.
Marshville, Midland, North Charlotte, Oakboro, Palestine, Plaza,
Porter, Seversville, Six Mile Creek, Siler, Stanfield, Star, Stephen-
son, Tabernacle, Wadeville.
We recommend :
1. That all churches which pay their Presbyterial tax by Nov.
15, 1929, be not considered as delinquent.
2. That the Presbytery through the Stated Clerk cite all
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churches which do not pay their Presbyterial tax by November 15
to appear at the Spring meeting, Presbytery to show cause why
they have not paid this tax.
Submitted by Committee,
C. H. ROWAN.
J. P. SIFFORD.
J. B. REILY.
The Standing Committee on Home Missions has examined the
report of the Executive Committee and recommends its approval,
and the adoption of its recommendations.
M. B. PRINCE.
W. C. COOPER.
J. A. CALIGAN.
C. H. TREXLER.
The Standing- Committee on Presbytery's Home Mis-
sions recommended that the report of the Permanent Com-
mittee be adopted which is as follows :
REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF HOME MISSIONS
The Executive Committee of Home Missions for the Presbytery
submits the following report for the first half of the church year :
We begin by recording our gratitude to the Great Head of the
Church for the manifold blessings which have been upon our labors
during the year. It is our candid judgment that the work is in
better condition today than it has been at any time during the years
we have been charged with it. This is especially true in regards to
the men who man the fields, the means with which to conduct
the work, and the material equipment on the fields. These three
factors combined with a fourth, namely, the open door to our
church in all this Home Mission territory, are changing the whole
aspect of the work for the Committee. While we still have our
many problems to deal with, they are nevertheless those that belong
to a going concern; and that makes all the difference in the world,
as everyone knows. Having wiped out a staggering debt of $15,000,
which we inherited a few years ago, we are now able to give our
time and attention to real constructive Home Mission work, and to
do it with pleasure.
1. The Men
That which gives the Committee most pleasure in conducting
the work is the securing of a body of fine young men for the various
Home Mission fields. Never have we been quite so successful in
this respect as this year. Today we have as choice a body of Home
Mission workers as can be found anywhere in the church. In most
cases they are young men fresh from the seminaries, big-hearted,
sacrificial, and withal having a determination to do the work. It is
a real pleasure to be of any assistance to them. Reports from the
fields show that they have had 237 professions of faith this sum-
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mer; 141 additions to the church on profession, and 59 by letter,
a total addition of 200.
It might be of interest to know that 2iJ evangelistic meetings
have been held during the summer, resulting in 211 professions of
faith, 118 additions to our church on profession, and 24 by letter;
total addition from the meetings 142. Other meetings are now in
progress, or will be held later on in the year. So that by the end
of the church year we confidently look for a big increase in the
membership of the Home Mission churches.
All these churches, now numbering 52, are being regularly sup-
plied with preaching either by resident pastors, or Stated Supply,
with the exception of two groups: Lee Park, Turner, and Stevenson;
Bethlehem, Unionville, and Midland. The latter group was supplied
during the summer by M. R. Ross, a senior at Union Theological
Seminary, Richmond, Va., who has now returned to Richmond for
his last year's work. Both these two groups of churches are now
in search of men, and have good hopes of being suppHed in a
short time.
In addition to the men on the field, the Committee has secured
Miss Laura Grier, a graduate of the Assembly Training School of
Richmond, Va., as a field worker on the Roberdel group of churches]
She comes to this needy field as a trained and experienced worker.
For two years previous to her coming to this work she did excel-
lent Home Mission work in Lexington Presbytery of the Synod of
Virginia. We expect great things of her in her new work. She has
been on the field since the first of September.
The fact that practically all our fields are supplied, and supplied
with exceptionally fine men ,your Committee counts as a most
happy condition for the work, but we would remind the Presbytery
that such a condition calls for a very heavy payroll, and one that
will take more money than we have been receiving if we are to
sustain the work and end the year free from debt.
II. The Means
Just a word about the finances of the Committee will be suffi-
cient at this time. At the regular Spring meeting we make our com-
plete financial report forthe year, and recommend the appropria-
tions. Funds have been coming in rather slowly for this first half
of the year; however, our Treasurer has been able to pay all the
workers on the fields their salaries up to date without having to
go into the banks and borrow. This has been made possible by
your Committee carrying a small balance at the beginning of the
year. That balance has now been consumed, and the treasury is
about empty. We plead for a liberal offering from every church in
the Presbytery from now on until the end of the church year, and
we know you will not fail us. We are conducting the work on a
strictly cash basis, as we know you want us to do; and yet we are
not out to save money. Our ears are ever open to the call of the
field, and where we have felt that we should enter we have done
so, and trusted to the churches to stand by us. It has meant, of
course, the enlarging of our program of work, but you have not
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failed us in the support. And your Committee would here record
its high appreciation for the fine support which we have received
from churches, societies, Sunday Schools, and individuals. This is
not intended to commend every church, however, for there are many
churches in the Presbytery, and some of them constantly looking
to the Committee for help, that make no contribution to the cause
of Presbytery's Home Missions worthy of the name. Our plea is
with you. If your church is one of these, in the name of all that is
fair, won't you come to the aid of this vital and most fundamental
work of the church?
III. The Material Equipment
The building program goes on in the Presbytery with unabated
force, especially is this true in the Home Mission fields. In our last
report, the one to the Spring meeting of the Presbytery at Steel
Creek, we listed the nams of seventeen Home Mission churches
which have been built in just recent years, representing an expendi-
tur of over $200,000. Since that time North Charlotte has begun the
erection of a new church. It is being built on a new and most beau-
tiful site, the gift of Mr. C. W. Johnston of Charlotte. The first unit
of the plant, the one they are now working on, will cost about
$11,000. The church at Troy, under the leadership of Rev. W. C.
Copeland, has taken on new life and they are proceeding rapidly
to the completion of their new building, estimated cost when com-
plete $18,000. Waxhaw is building a new church on the site of the
old one at a cost of about $10,000. The Tabernacle Church is now
complete at a cost about the same as the Waxhaw Church. A new
church has been build at Nevins out on the Statesville road from
Charlotte at a cost of $12,000. While not strictly a Home Mission
church, nevertheless, your Committee has been called upon to help
with the building. A handsome new church is in process of erection
at Matthews to cost complete about $15,000. This church likewise
has asked the aid of your Committee though it is not a Home Mis-
sion church. We want to help them if a way can be found to do
it out of our small income. They need help. Theirs is a great under-
taking for a small church, and at a time, too, when they have no
pastor.
The following churches need church buildings : Biscoe, Star,
Rourks Chapel, McLean Memorial, and Lilesville. These congrega-
tions are at present worshipping in buildings belonging to sister
denominations or in schoolhouses.
We need manses at North Charlotte, Plaza, Marshville, Oak-
boro, Troy, Badin, Marston, Morven, and one for the Peachland-
Polkton group.
In all these cases your Committee will called upon to help,
and we must do what we can when the time comes. What brings
sorrow to us is that we have so little that we can contribute to
this special phase of the work. How the Committee does need a loan
found of at least $25,000! Presbytery could do no finer thing than
provide just such a fund. In after years it would pay back four-
fold, and then some.
At the Spring meeting of Presbytery the Committee was given
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the authority to sell the Allen Church and lot and buy a new lot near
the Clear Creek Consolidated High School if the way was clear
and it seemed good to the Committee. The building has been sold
for the sum of $100, and it has been removed and converted into
a dwelling. The lot, an acre of ground, remains to be disposed of.
It has not seemed practicable to try to rebuild near the school build-
ing, and since there are but one or two members of the old organ-
ization left, we are recommending that this church be dissolved.
IV. Workers* Conference
The second annual Workers' Conference was held at Morven
on June 11th at the expense of the Committee. The Morven people
in a most happy way furnished the entertainment. The meeting
was largely attended by the ministers, their wives, and the members
of the Home Mission Committee. The most pressing problems of the
fields were discussed during the day, and as a consequence both
the men on the fields and the Committee got a better understanding
of their common task. This annual conference is proving more and
more worthwhile and an organization was set up at this meeting
to foster its aims. C. E. White was elected president; W. E. Price,
vice-president, and J. B. Reily, secretary. Already plans are under
way for a greater meeting next year.
V. Recommendations
1. Supplies should be granted as follows : A. S. Anderson, Badin
and Palestine ; C. E. White, Waxhaw and Tabernacle.
2. That Presbytery approve the employing of Miss Laura Grier,
field worker in the Roberdell, Brainard, Cameronian and Midway
group.
3. The Allen Church be dissolved, and that Elder Morrison be
given a letter of transfer to Rocky River Church in Concord
Presbytery. J. M. WALKER,
Chairman.
The Permanent Committee on Stewardship submitted
the following report which was adopted :
REPORT OF STEWARDSHIP COMMITTEE
The Stewardship Committee submits the following report :
The apportionment sent down to Mecklenburg Presbytery by
the Synod of North Carolina at its 1929 session for the fiscal year
beginning April 1, 1930, amounts to $217,000.00. This covers the
benevolent causes for Assembly, Synod and Presbytery. It is a
decrease of $3,000.00 from the askings for this current year.
The Presbytery raised $195,234 last year for benevolences. The
year previous we raised $206,967, and the year preceding that
benevolences amounted to $237,257. For the one-year period then
there was a decrease of $11,733 and for the two-year period a
decrease of $42,053 is shown. This should cause us deep concern. If
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our Presbytery is growing spiritually and numerically it should be
reflected in the gifts to benevolences.
Following the action of the last General Assembly we call atten-
tion to the fact that this is "Stewardship Year" and its observance
is commended to all church members. The Stewardship Department
has available a good supply of free literature for distribution.
Recommendations
1. That the benevolent askings of the Presbytery for the year
beginning April 1, 1930, amounting to $217,000, be adopted, and that
the Stewardship Committee be authorized to pro-rate this amount
between the churches of the Presbytery, and when pro-rated same
to be printed and attached in the back of the minutes of the Fall
meeting of Presbytery.
2. That the percentages of distribution be the same as here-
tofore, sixty per cent for Assembly's causes, forty per cent for
Synods and Presbytery.
3. That March 16, 1930, be the date for the Every Member
Canvass as per the recommendation of the General Assembly.
4. That Presbytery urge pastors and other leaders in line with
the action of the 1929 General Assembly to observe February as
a season of Stewardship study, at prayer meetings, in Sunday School
or otherwise, using one of the following books : "The Stewardship
of Life," by Crawford; "Royal Partnership," Melvin; "Man's Obliga-
tion to His Maker," McClung.
5. That Presbytery designate second Monday in February as
a day of prayer and that Presbytery meet at the First Church,
Charlotte, at 11 a. m., as we did this year, and that the Secretary
of Stewardship have charge of this meeting.
Respectfully submitted,
E. A. DILLARD, Chairman.
Rev. W. H. Johnston was later elected as Secretary of Steward-
ship.
The Committee on Young People's Work submitted the
following report which was adopted and is as follows :
REPORT ON YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK
Young People's Conference, July 5th to 12th. There were 101
young people registered and eight adults, total 109. Terms were
$5.00 board and room and $1.00 registration fee. This fee to take
care of expenses. Place was the Marshburn Hotel at White Lake.
Therefore 101 young people at $6.00 amounted to $606.00 received.
Paid to Marshburn for young people and adults. $565.00.
$41.00
Expenses, Printing $ 7.50
Pins for Prizes 4.50
Lime and Horseshoes 1.00
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Meals on Mon. for those making trip 4.00
Gasoline on trip making arrangements 10.00
Total $27.00
$27.00
Balance $14.00
The faculty were as follows : Dr. W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., teacher
of the Bible; Rev. W. B. S. Chandler, teacher of Church History;
Mr. George Chenot, church music and conducting ; Mrs. E. A. Dil-
lard, registrar and counsellor; Mrs. R. W. Mitchell, counsellor and
nurse ; Miss Mary Howard Turlington, counsellor ; Mr. Tom Hill,
athletic director and counsellor; Rev. E. A. Dillard, conference
director.
Dr. Mcllwaine gave two of the inspirational addresses in the
evening ;Mr. Dillard, one, and Professor Earnest Beaty of Davidson
the last.
The conference was a wonderful blessing to young people and
adults alike. Already many of the young people are asking about
a similar conference next year. This was our first attempt at a
conference like this in Mecklenburg Presbytery. If God wills, and
Presbytery so authorizes and another conference is held next year,
it will be planned with more experience, with improvements, a
larger faculty, etc. Almost all the city churches were represented
and many of the country churches. As you will observe the confer-
ence pays for itself.
Thanking you for this privilege,
Respectfully submitted,
E. A. DILLARD, Chairman.
Please note the following recommendations :
1. That a Young People's Conference of a similar kind be held
annually.
2. That a representative and alternate be chosen from each
church in the Presbytery to attend this conference.
Rev. L. R. Walker, D.D., reported attendance upon the
sessions of the General Assembly at Montreat. which re-
port was received and his diligence commended.
The Committee on Assembly's Minutes submitted the
following report which was adopted :
ASSEMBLY'S MINUTES
Your Committee on General Assembly's Minutes would call
attention to the following actions and directions of the Assembly :
1. The approval of the Ministers' Annuity Fund by the Assem-
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bly and the Assembly directs all its agencies to co-operate in its
establishment and urges all its ministers and churches to adopt and
enter into the fund. (See Page 46.)
Presbytery has appointed Committee requested. (See report of
Committee on Ministerial Relief.)
2. To the basis of union with the United Presbyterian Church
(Page 139) recommending its adoption, and directing that it be sent
down to the Presbyteries for their advice and consent to the same.
(Pages 62 and 69.) We recommend that this matter be placed on
the docket of Spring meeting of Presbytery.
3. Attention of Presbytery is directed to the continuance of
the Committee on Closer Relations with the A. R. P. Church and
to the appointment of an Ad Interim Committee on Closer Rela-
tions with Other Presbyterian Bodies. (Pages 94 and 98.)
4. To Assembly's direction that Presbytery appoint a Commit-
tee, which may be the Home Mission Committee, to function in
the promotoin of Country Church Work (Page 58), we recommend
the appointment of a new Committee, with title, Committee on
Country Church Work.
5. To the direction of the Assembly that Presbytery consider
the adoption of an Evangelistic program designed to reach every
church in the Presbytery with a special Evangelistic meeting (Page
68), we recommend that this be referred to the Committee on
Evangelism with the direction to arrange such a program and to
promote it in all our churches.
Respectfully submitted,
LYNN R. WALKER, Chairman.
The request of McGee Church for the pastoral services
of Rev. A. H. Fraser as supply until the Spring Meeting of
Presbytery was presented to Presbytery. Mr. Alexander of
the McGee Church was given the privilege of the floor and
spoke concerning the request. The request was deferred to
the adjourned meeting of Presbytery and the Clerk in-
structed to confer with Mr. Frazer and the church as to
his coming into the Presbytery.
Presbytery recessed for five minutes before taking up
the order of the day.
The Presbyterial sermon was preached by Rev. C. H.
Little from Col. 1 :27, subject, "Christ in You the Hope of
Glory."
Presbytery then took recess for lunch until 1 :30 p. m.
30 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
SECOND DAY
Afternoon
Presbytery reconvened at 1 :40 p. m. The Judicial Com-
mittee reported that nothing had come into its hands.
The following report of the Leave of Absence Commit-
tee was adopted:
REPORT OF LEAVE OF ABSENCE COMMITTEE
The Committee on Leave of Absence desires to make the
following report :
We recommend that the following ministers be excused for
their non-attendance on this meeting of Presbytery : Dr. M. E.
Sentelle, Dr. A. S. Johnson, W. S. Hamiter, G. C. Huntington, Dr.
J. F. Hardy, L. P. Burney, L E. Wallace, M. E. Peabody, and Dr.
C. R. Nisbet, S. B. McLean, B. F. Yandell.
Recommended that Rev. E. A, Dillard be excused for non-attend-
ance on first day of this mee'cing of Presbytery.
Excused after Tuesday afternoon : Dr. W. H. Frazer, Dr. A. R.
Shaw, Dr. C. W. Sommerville, W. H. Johnston, G. A. McRae.
Excused from sessions of second day: Rev. J. W. Greer, Rev.
J. A. Caligan, Dr. J. E. Hart, Dr. N. P. Coppedge, H. E. Garrison,
T. V. Howell, C. M. Hutchison.
That permission be granted to Rev, W. S. Hamiter to labor with-
out the bounds of Presbytery for the next six months.
A. T. TAYLOR.
A delegation from the Davidson College Y. M. C. A.
consisting of M. C. O'Neal, Secretary, Dean Rusk, and T. R.
Nunan, presented the workings of the Y. M. C. A. there and
volunteered the help of the Y. M. C. A. in holding services
in the churches, Sunday Schools and Young People's Work.
Presbytery voted its appreciation to these young men.
The following resolution of thanks was adopted with a
rising vote :
RESOLUTION OF THANKS
Mecklenburg Presbytery hereby expresses its gratitude to the
pastor and people of Brainard Church, and the people of other
churches, for their hospitality in the entertainment of Presbytery.
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We particularly are grateful to the ladies of the church and
community for the abundant and delicious lunches at mid-day.
Also the pastor and the people of the Methodist Church for
the use of the auditorium, and to the Woodmen of the World for
the use of their hall for the lunches.
Also that these resolutions be read to the local Presbyterian
and Methodist congregations.
W. L. SUMMERVILLE.
A. L. McDUFFIE;
The Nominating Committee submitted the following
report which was adopted. See inside covers.
One hundred dollars was appropriated for the Secretary
of Stewardship from the Presbyterial tax, out of which he
is to pay the expenses of the office.
The Bills and Overtures Committee reported that noth-
ing had been brought to their attention.
Presbytery's printed minutes were approved.
The Ad Interim Committee on Revision of the Manual
reported progress and was continued.
The time and place for meeting of the Spring Meeting of
Presbytery postponed until the adjourned meeting.
November 19th at 10:00 a. m. in the First Presbyterian
Church of Charlotte was set for the adjourned meeting.
Rev. M. B. Prince was appointed to preach the Presbyte-
rial sermon at the Spring Meeting, the subject to be chosen
by Mr. Prince.
The minutes of today's sessions were read and approved.
Following the Roll Call Presbytery was led in prayer by
Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine and stood adjourned.
J. W. STORK, Permanent Clerk.
C. G. LONG, Temporary Clerk.
T. M. STRIBLING, Moderator.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
32 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
ADJOURNED MEETING
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in adjourned session at
10 a. m., November 19th at the First Presbyterian Church,
Charlotte, N. C
Rev. S. B. Lyerly, last moderator present, was called
upon to preside. The following were present:
ROLL
Ministers: J. R. Bridges, G. C. Huntington, A. R. Shaw,
J. W. Grier, H. E. Gurney, C. H. Little, R. S. Burwell, A. S.
Johnston, C. E. White, R. W. Culberson, J. G. Garth, J. W.
Stork, J. M. Walker, W. C. Underwood, L. H. Query, Q. N.
Huneycutt, W. B. Mcllwaine, S. B. Lyerly, T. F. Huneycutt,
M. E. Peabody, A. A. Walker, C. C. Beam, I. E. Wallace,
S. B. McLean, W. H. Johnston, E. G. Gammon, C. R. Nisbet,
A. F. Doty, J. C. Grier, Jas. F. Hardie, W. W. Akers, L. P.
Burney, J. S. McFall, W. C. Cooper, M. B. Prince, S. J. Hod.
Churches Represented: C. M. Hutchinson, Amity; O. W.
Potts, Banks; R. A. Grier, Central Steele Creek; F. H.
Andrews, Charlotte, First ; Edw. C. Hayes, McGee ; H. W.
Bigham, Mulberry; R. W. Summerville, Paw Creek; J. M.
Miller, Philadelphia ; H. E. Garrison, Plaza ; C W. Robin-
son, Sugaw Creek; W. L. Summerville, Thomasboro ; S. W.
Smith, Morgan.
Opened with prayer by Rev. W. W. Akers, pastor of
West Avenue Church.
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The following visiting ministers were present and i
vited to sit as visiting brethren :
Dr. D. H. Scanlon, Granville Presbytery; Rev. W. A.
Nicholson, Wilmington Presbytery ; Rev. Geo. F. Robertson,
Holston Presbytery and Rev. H. C. Carmichael, North Caro-
lina Conference Methodist Protestant Church.
Upon motion the unfinished business of calls and supplies
was taken up.
McGee Church was granted the privilege of engaging
Rev. A. H. Frazer, of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., to
supply them until the Spring Meeting of Presbytery.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 33
Calls from Lee Park, Stephenson and Turner Churches
for the pastoral services of Rev. W. B. Neil, of Wilmington
Presbytery for $400.00, $200.00 and $350.00 respectively
v^ere read and referred to the Committee on Calls and
Supplies.
Calls from Banks and Pineville Churches for Rev. W. A.
Nicholson of Wilmington Presbytery for half time each for
$500.00 and $900.00 respectively were read and referred to
the Committee on Calls and supplies along v^ith a request
from Six Mile Creek Church for afternoon services of Rev.
W. A. Nicholson.
Rev. H. C. Carmichael of the North Carolina Annual
Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church, presented
a certificate of good standing, which being accepted, Mr.
Carmichael was examined for reception.
The examination on Experimental Religion by the mod-
erator was sustained as satisfactory part of trial.
The examination on theology by Dr. A. S. Johnston was
sustained.
The examination on Church Government by Rev. M. E.
Peabody was sustained.
The examination as a whole was sustained and Rev.
H. C. Carmichael was received and enrolled a member of
Presbytery upon signing the covenant.
The requests from Unionville, Bethlehem and Midland
Churches for the services of Rev. H. C. Carmichael as stated
supply were granted.
Philadelphia Church, through its pastor Rev. S. J. Hood,
extended a most cordial invitation to Presbytery to hold
the Spring Meeting with them. The invitation was accepted
by rising vote.
The Committee on Christian Education through its
chairman. Rev. J. W. Grier, rendered the following report
which with its recommendations were adopted.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
We have on our roll 24 candidates for the ministry and two
young ladies preparing for mission work.
34 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
J, H. Caligan, M. B. Moss, and J. M. Davis are in Union Sem-
inary.
P. P, Thrower and E. F. Lothery are in Columbia Seminary.
Harry W. Alexander is in Louisville Seminary.
H. A. Gilbert, Bruce Peabody, J. M. Smith, W. B. Mcllwaine and
T. M. Davis are at Davidson College.
M. B. White is in Presbyterian College of South Carolina.
F. J. Knox is in Junior College at Maxton.
J. D. Withrow^ is in Hampden-Sidney College.
B. F. Brown, C. L. Norwood and C. K. Poole are teaching. H. T.
Rummage and W. W. Thrower are working.
Jack Hand is working to help support his family, his father
being dead. He thinks that it will not be possible for him to return
to school and asks that his name be dropped from the roll of can-
didates.
Your chairman has not been able to hear from W. E. Love,
J. F. Hutchinson, John Munsey Smith, or Guy E. Weeks after having
written to each of them repeatedly.
We recommend :
1. That the names of Jack Hand, J. F. Hutchison, John Munsey
Smith, W. E. Love, and Guy E. Weeks be dropped from the roll of
candidates.
2. Concord Presbytery requests that Candidate Jonathan Smith,
now on list of Mecklenburg Presbytery, be transferred to the care
of Concord Presbytery. Mr. Smith is now at Davidson College pur-
suing his course preparatory to entering the seminary.
3. The following loans be made by Central Committee :
LOANS
Name Institution Class Amount
Curlee, Mary Assembly's Tr. School 1st $125 N
Davis, Jay McDonald __Union Seminary 1st $125 R
Davis, Thomas M. Davidson College 1st $125 N
Gilbert, Harry A. Davidson College 2nd $125 R
Lothery, Espy F. Columbia Seminary 3rd $125 R
McSwain, Wm. Belk — Davidson College 3rd $125 R
Moss, Moody Rash Union Seminary 3rd $125 R
Peabody, Bruce Davidson College 1st $125 N
Thrower, Paul P. Columbia Seminary 2nd $125 R
Walker, E. Noel Uni. of N. Carolina
Medical Department 2nd $250 R
White, Murray P. C. of S. C. 1st $125 N
Withrow, J. D. Jr. Hampden-Sidney 3rd $100 R
2 Girls $ 375
10 Boys 1,250
12 Candidates $1,625
J. W. GRIER, Chairman.
Note : "N" indicates New Loan and "R" indicates a Renewal.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 35
Rev. J. A. McQueen, Rev. C. E. White, Rev. W. W.
Akers, Rev. W. C. Underwood presented satisfactory rea-
sons for absence at the Fall Meeting of Presbytery and
were excused for non-attendance.
The commission to ordain and install licentiate J. A.
Mclntyre at Pageland, Beulah and Salem Churches, and the
commission to install Rev. S. J. Hood at Philadelphia re-
ported the duty performed, which reports were adopted, as
follows :
ORDINATION OF J. A. McINTYRE
Report of Commission to ordain Rev. J. A. Mclntyre and install
him as pastor in the churches of the Pageland group.
The Commission met at Beulah Church at 11 o'clock on Novem-
ber 3, 1929, and aftera sermon by Rev. W. G. Thomas, of Ellerbe,
from Jno. 15:15, was duly constituted with prayer by the Chairman,
Rev. A. A. Walker. Rev, R. J. Mcllwain was elected Clerk. The
Commission then proceeded to ordain Mr. Mclntyre to the Gospel
ministry by the laying on of hands, and to install him as pastor of
Beulah Church. Rev. R. J. Mcllwain charged the pastor and Elder
W. E. Price charged the pepole.
The Commission met at Salem Church at 3 p. m. and was recon-
vened by the Chairman, Rev. A. A. Walker. Rev. R. J. Mcllwain
preached the sermon and Rev. A. A. Walker propounded the con-
stitutional questions to Mr. Mclntyre, and the congregation. Rev.
Mr. Thomas charged the pastor and Elder W. E. Price charged
the people.
The Commission was again convened at the Pageland Presby-
terian Church at 7 p. m., by the Chairman, Rev. A. A. Walker, who
preached, presided and propounded the constitutional questions
and charged the pastor. Elder W. E. Price charged the people.
A. A. WALKER, Chairman.
R. J. McILWAINE, Clerk.
REPORT OF COMMISSION TO INSTALL REV. S. J. HOOD
The Commission to install Rev. S. J. Hood at Philadelphia
Church met at the church on November 3, 1929, with the following
present : W. H. Frazer, D.D., S. B. Lyerly and Q. N. Huneycutt,
and Elders J. W. McCain and C. S. Harkey.
The Commission was constituted with prayer by Rev. S. B.
Lyerly. Rev. Q. N. Huneycutt was elected secretary.
Dr. W. H. Frazer presided and propounded the constitutional
questions. Rev. S. B. Lyerly preached the sermon. Rev. Q. N. Huney-
cutt charged the pastor, and Elder John W. McCain charged the
congregation.
^ MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
The required questions having been answered by both Rev.
Mr. Hood and people, he w^as duly installed as pastor of the church.
Q. N. HUNEYCUTT, Secretary.
The resignation of Ruling Elder McAlister Carson,
chairman of Presbytery's Committee on the Ministers'
Annuity Fund, was accepted.
A. J. Crowell, M.D., Ruling Elder in the Charlotte Second
Church was elected chairman of this committee.
The Committee on Calls and Supplies, through its chair-
man, Rev. W. B. Mcllwaine, D.D., was presented and
adopted :
SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT OF STANDING COMMITTEE ON
CALLS AND SUPPLIES
Into the hands of your Committee have come the following calls
for the pastoral services of Rev. W. B. Neill : From Stephenson
Church, paying a salary of $200.00 in regular monthly installments ;
from Lee Park Church, paying a salary of $400.00 in regular monthly
installments ; from Turner Church, paying $350.00 in regular monthly
installments.
We recommend that these calls be found in order and that these
churches be permitted to prosecute their calls before Wilmington
Presbytery.
We further recommend that the Presbytery request the Home
Missions Committee to supplement the salary of this field to the
extent of $1,000.00.
Banks Church and Pineville Church present calls for the pas-
toral services of Rev. W. A. Nicholson, the former church paying
$500.00 in regular monthly installments ; the latter paying $900.00
in regular monthly installments of $75.00, and the use of a manse.
We recommend that these two calls be found in order, and
that the churches be permitted to prosecute their calls before the
Wilmington Presbytery.
We recommend Six Mile Creek Church be allowed to employ
Rev. W. A. Nicholson as Stated Supply until the Spring meeting of
Presbytery at a salary of $125.00 per year in regular equal monthly
payments, and that the Home Missions Committee be requested to
supplement this salary with $175.00 per year in regular monthly
installments.
WM. B. McILWAINE, JR., Chairman.
The Stewardship Committee, through its chairman. Rev.
W. H. Johnston, rendered a supplementary report, which
was adopted. See pages 36, 37, and 38.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 37
Adjournment was taken to the first Monday of Feb-
ruary, 1930, at 2 p. m., at the First Church, Charlotte.
Churches which have not paid their Presbyterial Tax,
but which do so before the minutes are printed, are not to
be published in the delinquent list.
Presbytery will meet in regular Spring Session at Phila-
delphia Church on April 8th, at 7 :30 p. m., unless the time
is changed by the adjourned meeting on February 3rd.
Presbytery adjourned with prayer by the moderator.
J. W. STORK, Permanent Clerk.
M. E. PEABODY, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
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INDEX
Absence, Leave of 30
Adjourned Meeting, September 9, 1929 3
Adjourned Meeting, November 19, 1929 31
Adjourned Meeting set for February 3, 1930 Zl
Akers. W. W., installed at West Avenue 3
Alexander Fund, audited 17
Allen Church dissolved 23
Apportionments for Churches to raise beginning April, 1930 31
Assembly Minutes, report on 29
Assessment, Presbyterial Tax-Delinquent Churches 22, Zl
Banks Calls W. A. Nicholson ZZ
Burney L. P., ordained at Sugaw Creek 5
Called Meeting at Rocky Mount, October 9, 1929 10
Calls, W. B. Neil, W. A. Nicholson ZZ
J. A. Mclntyre, S. J. Hood 17, 21
Calls and Supplies — Report of Committee, at Brainard 21
Supplementary report at Charlotte 36
Home Missions report 26
Candidates for the ministry — Received 7
Location at School 34
Loans 34
Dropped from list 34
Carmichael, H. C, received ZZ
Assigned to Unionville group 33
Christian Education report ZZ
Committees Standing 13
Permanent Inside Cover
Cooper, W. C, ordained 4
Country Church Committee 6, 29 and Cover
Crowell, Dr. A. J., made chairman Ministers Annuity Committee 36
Davidson College YMCA men heard at Brainiard 30
Directory of Presbytery Cover
Fall Meeting 11
Five year summary statistics 41
Foreign Missions report 18
Frazer, A. H., to supply at McGee 29, 32
Frazer, W. H. — Moderator's sermon 11
Address 14
Glasgow, T. M., address on Evangelism 14
Home Missions report 23
Hood, S. J., received 16
Called to Philadelphia 17
Installed at Philadelphia 35
Johnston, W. H., elected Stewardship secretary 27 and Cover
Lee Park, Turner and Stephenson call to W. B. Neil 33
Leadership Training report 16
Manual committee continued 36
Matheson, W. H., dismissed to Nashville Presbytery 10
McFall, J. S., ordained 4
McGee Church asks for A. H. Frazer as supply 29, 32
Mclntyre, J. A., licensed — Extraordinary 6
Called to Beulah group 21
Ordained 35
Moderator, T. M. Stribling 12
Men's Work Committee report 19
Names of committee Cover
Ministers' Annuity Fund — Dr. F. H. Barron's address 9
Committee appointed 13 and cover
Moffett, Dr. L. L, address on Foreign Missions 18
Neil, W. B., called to Lee Park group 33
Nicholson, W. A., called to Banks and Pineville 33
Nevins, new church organized 7
Nominating Committee's report 31 and Covers
Peabody, Bruce, received as candidate for ministry 7
Permanent Committees Covers
Pineville calls W. A. Nicholson 33
Prayer Meeting for Stewardship, Feb. 10, 1929 26
Presbyterial sermon at Brainard, C. H. Litlle 29
To be preached at spring meeting, M. B. Prince 31
Presbyterial Tax, delinquent churches 22, 37
Sabbath and Family Religion 14
Schedule of askings 38
Six Mile Creek asks for W. A. Nicholson, as supply 33
Spring Meeting of Presbytery Invited to Philadelphia 33
Time fixed, April 8, 7:30 p. m 37
Standing Rule on Sabbath 14
Stewardship committee report 26
W. H. Johnston elected secretary 27
Salary of $100 appropriated 31
Apportionments of churches 3S
Thanks resolution 30
Trustees of Presbytery Cover
Trustees of Colleges Cover
Union with United Presbyterians, postponed 29
Union with A. R. Presbyterians 29
Unionville and Bethlehem ask for H. C. Carmichael 33
Young People's Work report 27
9. Sabbath and Family Religion— R. J. AIcTlvvain. C. E. White,
J. W. McCain, Wm. Ross.
10. Evangelism^A. A. Walker, W. B. Mcllwaine, W. E. Price.
11. Men's Work— Lynn R. Walker, I. E. Wallace, L. P. Burney.
J. E. McLaughlin, C. P. Brown, H. J. Spencer, P. S. Gilchrist.
J. P. Marsh, T. M. Glasgow, M. E. Trotter.
12. Women's Work— W. B. Mcllwaine, J. C. Grier, W. B. S. Chand-
ler, H. J. Spencer, R. G. Spratt.
13. Auditing — J. F. Jamison, J. L. Williamson.
14. Stewardship — W. H. Johnston, Chairman and Secretary of Stew-
ardship ; W. H. Frazer, E. G. Gammon, Frank Mathews, W. E
Neil, R. A. Grier.
15. Sessional Records— T. H. Mitchell, W. G. Thomas, W. C. Coper,
and five elders.
16. Country Church Work — C. W. Sommerville, Q. N. Huneycutt,
F. S. Neal.
17. Ministers' Annuity Fund — Dr. A. J. Crowell, T. M. Glasgow,
J. L. Choate, J. M. Oldham, R. A. Dunn.
18. Examinations:
(1) Experimental Piety — The Moderator.
(2) Academic Studies — L. P. Burney.
(3) Languages — Latin Thesis and Greek Exegesis — C. W. Som-
merville, J. W. Grier.
(4) Natural and Exact Sciences — C. H. Little, M. B. Prince.
(5) Mental and Moral Philosophy, Logic and Rhetoric — W. H.
Frazer, W. B. S. Chandler.
(6) Theology — A. S. Johnson, W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., C. H. Rowan.
(7) Church History— J. M. Walker, J. S. McFall.
(8) Church Government and Sacraments — M. E. Peabody, T. M.
Stribling.
TRUSTEES OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
1. Davidson— R. A. Dunn, H. N. Pharr— Terms expire 1932; C. R.
Nisbet, J. P. Matheson, W. H. Belk— Terms expire 1930.
2. Queens — McAIister Carson, Chairman — Term expires 1931 ; E. A.
McCausland, J. W. McClung, Hunter Marshall — Terms expire
1930; Mrs. C. C. Hook, Mrs. Cameron Morrison, J. L, Choate,
P. S. Gilchrist — Terms expire 1931 ; J. Arthur Henderson, E. E.
Jones, A. J. Crowell — Terms expire 1932.
(Continued from inside front cover)
U N. C
(MINUTES
of
Mecklenburg
Presbytery
121st STATED SESSION
Philadelphia Church
April 15, 16, 17, 1930
ADJOURNED MEETINGS
At First Church, Charlotte, N. C.
February 3, 1930
February 17, 1930
At Queens College, May 5, 1930
NEXT MEETING
Mulberry, October 28, 1930
At 11:00 A. M.
Charlotte, N. C, Route 5
DIRECTORY
Rev. S. B. McLean, Moderator Charlotte, N. C.
Rev. J. G, Garth, Stated Clerk Charlotte, N. C
Rev. J. W. Stork, Permanent Clerk ^_Mt. Gilead, N. C.
Trustees of Presbytery — H C. Alexander, Hunter Marshall, Jr., J. L.
Choate.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Presbytery's Home Missions— J. M. Walker, C. G. Long, W. B. S.
Chandler, J. W. Stork, Lynn R. Walker, C. H. Little, F. S. Neal,
W H. Belk, T. J. Smith, C. P. Brown, W. E. Price, Dr. R. H.
Lafferty, J. F. Hardie.
PERMANENT COMMITTEES
1. Foreign Missions — E. G. Gammon, C. G. Long, A. F. Doty, W. L.
Wallis, M. B. Speir.
2. Assembly's Home Missions — J. F. Hardie, C. H. Little, A. S.
Anderson, Jno. B. Ross.
3. Christian Education and' Ministerial Relief — J. W. Grier, W. B. S.
Chandler, J. W. McClung, J. M. Oldham.
4. Religious Education — General Chairman : L. P. Burney.
(1) Children's Division : W. M. Wilcox, W. E. Price.
(2) Young People's Division : E. A. Dillard, M. E. Peabody,
F. H. Bierman.
(3) Sunday School Extension : M. B. Prince, C. M. Hutchinson.
(4) Leadership Training: B. F. Yandell, G. M. Beaty, Dr. R. H.
Lafferty.
5. Bible Cause— W. A. Nicholson, J. W. Stork.
6. Synod's Home Missions— L E. Wallace, A. L. McDuffie, C. H.
Caldwell, D. S. Monteith.
7. Orphans' Home — W. W. Akers, R. W. Culbertson, Wm. Anderson,
W. A. Jamison.
8. Schools and Colleges— C. R. Nisbet, I. E. Wallace, B. F. Yandell,
J. R. Bridges, Beatty Faires, G. M. Rose, Jr.
(Continued on back inside cover)
oMlNVTES
of
Mecklenburg
Presbytery
121st STATED SESSION
Philadelphia Church
April 15, 16, 17, 1930
ADJOURNED MEETINGS
At First Church, Charlotte, N. C.
February 3, 1930
February 17, 1930
At Queens College, May 5, 1930
NEXT MEETING
Mulberry, October 28, 1930
At 11:00 A.M.
Charlotte, N. C, Route 5
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ADJOURNED MEETING
February 3, 1930.
Mecklenburg- Presbytery met in adjourned session at
the Charlotte First Church at 2 p. m.
Rev. S. B. Lyerly, last moderator present, presided. Pres-
bytery was called to order and constituted with prayer by
Rev. A. R. Shaw, D.D.
The following were found present:
ROLL
Ministers: J. R. Bridges, D.D., A. R. Shaw, D.D., J. W.
Grier, R. J. Mcllwaine, R. S. Burwell, D.D., J. G. Garth,
J. W. Stork, J. M. Walker, W. B. Mcllwaine, D.D., S. B.
Lyerly, A. A. Walker, R. W. Culberson, T. H. Mitchell,
W. H. Johnston, L. P. Burney, M. B. Prince, W. C. Cooper,
J. G. Grier, S. J. Hood, H. C. Carmichael, J. A. Mclntyre,
W. B. S. Chandler, B. F. Yandell, W. T. Smith, C. H. Little,
A. S. Johnston, D.D.
Churches i H. E Garrison, Plaza; C W. Robinson, Sugaw
Creek ; C. S. Harkey, Philadelphia ; R. W. Summerville, Paw
Creek; J. C. Richardson, Turner; J. R. Wallace, Lee Park;
R. R. Grier, Central Steele Creek ; W. L. Summerville,
Thomasboro ; C. M. Hutchinson, Amity; J. D. Woodside, St.
Paul.
Rev, W. A. Nicholson and Rev. W. B. Neill presented
letters of dismission from Wilmington Presbytery. They
were examined with a view to their reception.
The examination on Experimental Piety was conducted
by the Moderator.
The examination on Theology was conducted by Rev.
W. B. Mcllwaine, D.D.
The examination on Church Government was conducted
by Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine. Each of these was sustained as a
satisfactory part of trial.
The examination as a whole was sustained and they
were enrolled after signing the covenant.
4 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
Rev. W. A. Nicholson signified his acceptance of the calls
to Pineville and Banks churches.
Rev. W. B. Neill signified his acceptance of the calls of
Lee Park, Stephenson and Turner churches.
The following commissions were appointed to install
these brethren; Rev. W. B. Neill at Lee Park, Stephenson,
and Turner, February 16: Revs. A. A. Walker, chairman,
R. J. Mcllwaine, W. B. S. Chandler; Elders, W. H. Belk,
C. W. Walton.
To install Rev. W. A. Nicholson at Pineville and Banks,
February 2vS, at Banks, 11 a. m., and Pineville, 7:30 p. m. :
Rev. S. B. Lverly, chairman, Rev. W. H. Frazer, D.D., Rev.
W. B. Mcllwaine, D.D. ; Elders, W. E. Price, N. C. White,
H. M. Nicholson.
Rev. C. W. Sommerville, D.D., offered his resignation
as chairman of the Committee on Country Church Work,
which was accepted, and Rev. Q. N. Huneycutt, Th.D., was
made chairman and Rev. S. J. Hood was added to the com-
mittee.
The time of the Spring meeting was set for the third
Tuesday of April, April 15, 1930, at 7:30 p. m., the stand-
ing rule fixing the second Tuesday being set aside for this
meeting.
The time of the day of Prayer for Stewardship was
changed from February 10 to February 17 at 11 a. m.
Dr. A. J. Crowell offered his resignation as chairman of
the Ministers' Annuity Committee, which was accepted and
Ruling Elder N. C. White was added to the committee and
made chairman.
Adjournment was taken at 11 a. m., February 17, at First
Church, Charlotte.
The minutes were read and approved. Presbytery ad-
journed, with prayer by the Moderator.
S. B. LYERLY, Moderator Pro Tern.
J. W. STORK, Permanent Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 5
ADJOURNED MEETING
February 17, 1930.
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in adjourned session in
Charlotte First Church on Monday, February 17, at 11 a. m.,
with the following present :
ROLL
Ministers: E. A. Dillard, C. R. Nisbet, Jas. F. Hardie, I.
E. Wallace, W. H. Frazer, C. H. Rowan, M. E. Peabody, W.
A. Nicholson, W. B. Mcllwaine, A. F. Doty, L. P. Burney,
W. W. Akers, A. S. Johnson, J. W. Grier, C H. Little, W. H.
Johnston, A. R. Shaw, J. G. Garth, S. B. Lyerly, Q. N.
Huneycutt, S. B. McLean, S. J. Hood, J. A. Mclntyre, T. H.
Mitchell, L. H. Query, C. W. Sommerville, R. J. Mcllwaine,
J. R. Bridges, J. M. Walker, A. A. Walker, J. C Grier, G. C.
Huntington, W. B. Neill, W. B. S. Chandler, C. E. White,
B. F. Yandell.
Churches: Dr. Alexander Graham, Charlotte Second; H.
W. Bigham, Mulberry; O. W. Potts, Banks.
Rev. S. B. Lyerly, last Moderator present called the
meeting to order and Presbytery was constituted with
prayer by Dr. J. R. Bridges.
Rev. Q. N. Huneycutt was elected clerk pro tern.
Rev. A. H. Frazer, of Kearney Presbytery, U. S. A., was
introduced and invited to sit as a visiting brother.
Mr. McAlister Carson, president of the Board of Trus-
tees of Queens College, addressed Presbytery in regard to
the Endowment Fund of the College, and, and urged Pres-
bytery to make some effort to raise the additional funds to
give the college its definite "A" grade rating.
Mr. Hunter Marshall and Mr. E. E. Jones, members of
the Board of Trustees, then also spoke concerning the great
need of raising the endowment fund.
Rev. J. G. Garth addressed Presbytery on the opportuni-
ties of Queens College.
6 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
Motion was made that a committee be appointed to con-
sider the matter of endowment and report back to Presby-
tery at 2 o'clock.
The motion carried and the following committee was
appointed: C. R. Nisbet, J. F. Hardie and S. B. McLean.
Motion was made and carried that commission to install
Mr. Nicholson be two ministers and one elder.
Recess was taken until 2 oMock.
Presbytery reassembled at 2 o'clock.
The committee to consider the matter of raising the re-
mainder of the Endowment Fund for Queens College made
the following report, which was adopted :
Resolved: That the Presbytery of Mecklenburg assures the Presi-
dent and Trustees of Queens College of its purpose to raise its pro rata
share of the $116,000, the amount necessary to complete the proposed
Endowment Fund of Queens College, the money to be in hand by
December 1, 1931.
2. That in raising the above amount every minister and elder pres-
ent pledges his best effort to the raising in his own church any amount
that may be apportioned to the same.
3. That the Presbytery requests the co-operation of the President
and Trustees of Queens College, in getting the apportionments to be
made before the officers of our churches.
4. That the Presbytery of Mecklenburg request the Presbyteries
of Kings Mountain, and Granville to take similar action at their spring
meetings, and that a joint meeting of the three Presbyteries be held at
Queens College on May 5 at 11 a. m. to work out the details.
5. That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the Stated
Clerks of the above Presbyteries.
The commission appointed to install Rev. W. B. Neill at
Lee Park, Stephensons and Turners, reported its duties
performed and was discharged :
INSTALLATION OF W. B. NEILL
The Commission of Mecklenburg Presbytery appointed to install the
Rev. W. B. Neill in the churches of the Lee Park group, Monroe, N. C,
met at Lee Park Church on February 16, 1930, at 11 a. m., and per-
formed all duties according to the Form of Church Government.
There were present Rev. A. A. Walker, Chairman ; Rev. R. J.
Mcllwaine and Elders W. H. Belk and C. W. Walton of the Monroe
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 7
Church. The Commission was duly constituted with prayer. Rev. A. A.
Walker presided and preached the sermon from Psalm 26 :7, and pro-
pounded the constitutional questions. Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine charged the
pastor. Elder C. W. Walton charged the people, and Elder W. H. Belk
also made a talk. The Commission adjourned after the benediction by
Rev. W. B. Neill.
Commission reconvened at Stephenson Church at 3 p. m. Rev. W.
B. S. Chandler, a member of the Commission, presided and propounded
the constitutional questions. Rev. R. J. Mcllwain preached from Matt.
11 :4. Rev. Mr. Chandler charged the pastor and Elder C. W. Walton
charged the people. Elder W. H. Belk, of the Monroe Church, also
talked. The Commission adjourned to meet at Turner Church at 7:30
p. m., after the benediction by Rev. W. B. Neill, the newly installed
pastor.
The Commission met at Turner Church at 7 :30 p m. Rev. R. J.
Mcllwaine presided and propounded the constitutional questions and
charged the pastor. Rev. W. B. S. Chandler preached the sermon from
Psalm 36:8. Elder C. W. Walton charged the people. Mr. W. H. Belk
also made a talk. Commission adjourned after benediction by Rev. W. B.
Neill.
R. J. McILWAINE, Clerk of Commission.
Stewardship Prayer Meeting
The meeting was turned over to Rev. W. H. Johnston,
Secretary of Stewardship, to present to Presbytery a pro-
gram of Prayer for Stewardship.
After reading a selection of God's Word and announc-
ing the outline of the program for the meeting, Dr. W. H.
Frazer was called upon to address Presbytery on the sub-
ject of Stewardship.
Special prayer was offered by Rev. G. C. Huntington,
Dr. J. F. Hardie, and Rev. W. B. S. Chandler.
Rev. E. A. Dillard presented a paper on "The Causes
of falling away and disappointment of Christians."
Prayers were offered by Rev. S. B. Lyerly, Rev. J. M.
Walker and Dr. A. S. Johnson.
Dr. C. R. Nisbet spoke on the subject of "The Tithe."
Prayers were offered by Rev. M. E. Peabody, Rev. W.
B. Neill and Rev. S. B. McLean.
Rev. W. H. Johnston made a very interesting talk on
the "Challenge of Prosperity and Adversity."
Motion was made that when we adjourn we do so to
meet in Philadelphia Church in the regular Spring meet-
ing.
S. B. LYERLY, Moderator Pro Tern.
Q. N. HUNEYCUTT, Temporary Clerk.
Attest : J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
8 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
STATED SPRING MEETING
121st STATED SESSION
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in 121st Stated Session
at Philadelphia Church, Tuesday evening, April 15, 1930,
at 7:30 p. m. and was constituted with prayer by the Mod-
erator, Rev. T. M. Stribling, who preached the opening
sermon from I John 1 :7.
The Presbyterial communion was conducted by Rev.
Geo. F. Robertson and Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine.
A memorial to Rev. Samuel Badger Lyerly was read by
Rev. J. G. Garth, and adopted by a rising vote. The Modera-
tor requested Dr. W. H. Frazer to lead the Presbytery in
prayer for the bereaved family and the church made vacant
by his death. Mr. Lyerly died March 29, 1930.
IN MEMORIAM
SAMUEL BADGER LYERLY
Samuel Badger Lyerly was born September 3, 1885, near Woodleaf,
Rowan County, North Carolina, the son of the late Daniel Alexander
Lyerly and Elizabeth Rice Lyerly, the latter of whom still lives at the
old home place near Woodleaf. His parents have always been known
for their honesty, piety and faithfulness to their home and their Church.
Samuel Badger Lyerly was the seventh of a family of ten children,
seven sons and three daughters. He grew up on a farm, sharing with his
brothers and sisters the burden of wresting a livelihood from the soil,
under adverse conditions. Accustomed to hard work and economy, yet
surrounded by a spirit of beautiful comraderie and filial piety, which
existed among all the brothers and sisters, full of reverence for father
and mother, he learned many lessons of unselfishness and humility, recog-
nition of the needs and rights of others, and an infinite patience for the
world's workers.
After completing the course in the public school he entered Lenoir
Academy and Business Institute, Lenoir, N. C, a Baptist high school,
where industrious boys and girls seeking an education, could be self-sup-
porting as they studied. He remained in this school even after it was
moved to Cherokee County, near Asheville, N. C, until his preparatory
course was completed.
A constant attendant as a boy at old Unity Church, near Woodleaf,
with its galleries for slaves in ante-bellum days, although by nature
serious yet timid and retiring, yet Badger made no profession of religiou
until he was about 20 years of age. In 1905 he joined the church at Unity
and three years later, impressed that he should be a minister of the
Gospel, together with two schoolmates, N. N. Fleming and R. C. Lippard,
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he was received by Concord Presbytery as a candidate for the ministry
and entered Davidson College in 1908. By serving in the dining room
and v^ith other tasks he assisted very materially with his expenses, and
through studiousness and industry he finished his course with credit and
received his A.B. degree in June, 1912. After finishing his college course,
doubts arose in his mind as to whether he had really received a call
from God to enter the ministry, and so for three years he taught as
principal in the public schools — two years at Denver, N. C, and one
year at Lagrange, N. C, trying to prove to himself that his call was
to teach instead of to preach. At the expiration of his third year as
teacher the urge of the Spirit was so strong that he could doubt no
longer and felt constrained like the apostle of old to cry out, "Woe is
me, if I preach not the Gospel." He then surrendered and went to Union
Seminary, Richmond, Va., where he pursued his theological studies for
three years and obtained the degree of Bachelor of Divinity in May, 1918.
During Mr. Lyerly's two vacations in the Seminary he served as
Student Supply at Union City, Tenn., and New Bern, N. C. In the
summer of 1918 he accepted the call to the First Presbyterian Church,
Raleigh, N. C, as assistant to Dr. W. McC. White, and was put in
charge of four points, attached to the First Church as missions. Willow
Springs, Varina, Mt. Pleasant and Fellowship. He was licensed and
ordained by Albemarle Presbytery in 1918 and worked in his first field
until 1922, when he accepted the call to St. Paul Presbyterian Church,
Charlote, N. C, in which charge he remained until his death on March 29,
1930, which occurred after a sudden heart attack.
Mr. Lyerly was married on September 23, 1919, to Miss Beulah
Marie Cline ,of Lenoir, N. C. Four children came to bless this happy
union, Samuel Badger, Jr., Roy Alexander, Ruth Inez and Dorothy
Jean, the oldest being nine years of age, the youngest almost four.
Besides being pastor of St. Paul Church, Mr. Lyerly always took
his part in all civic and Presbyterial affairs. He was Moderator of
Presbytery at Candor, in October 1928, attended General Assembly at
Eldorado, Ark., in 1927, and for three years acted as Secretary of the
Presbyterian Ministers' Association of Mecklenburg County, and moved
in various civic circles, always interested and active in promoting the
welfare of his church and city.
We do not attempt to place a full valuation on Mr. Lyerly's work
as a man or as a preacher. We can only say that he was a man who
had developed outstanding traits of patience, endurance, perseverance,
sacrifice and humility ; never flinching because the task was difficult, and
doing everything he attempted to the very best of his ability. His study
was sacred, and the wee small hours of the night often found him deep
in thought, preparing for the duties that lay before him. He was thought-
ful, vigorous in style, sympathetic in delivery, courageous in conviction,
painstaking, conscientious and honest. On his desk lay the sermon he
had prepared for delivery Sunday morning when God called him to
"That Beautiful Land on High." He was planning to aid in some cabinet
work for his Boy Scouts when he left his church study for the last time
Friday night.
No sacrifice was too great to make for the comfort of his family,
or the welfare of his flock. His people loved, honored and respected him,
and trusted his judgment as well as his religion. They have rallied to his
family since his departure, trying to compensate for so great a loss with
sympathy, love and helpfulness.
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Brother Lyerly's death seems to us a tragedy, but we know that
God doeth all things well. We bow to His blessed will, while we assure
the widow that there is One who promises to be a husband to those who
mourn, and a father to her children. We also beg the Church to be
patient under their trial and trust God's Spirit to lead them to one
who shall shepherd them as Brother Lyerly did.
The roll was called and the following found present :
ROLL
Ministers: G. C. Huntington, A. R. Shaw, J. W. Grier,
R. J. Mcllwaine, C. H. Little, R. L. Patrick, A. S. Johnson,
C. E. White, R. W. Culbertson, J. G. Garth, J. W. Stork, J.
M. Walker, W. C. Underwood, L. H. Query, W. H. Frazer,
Q. N. Huneycutt, W. B. Mcllwaine, A. S. Anderson, M. E.
Peabody, W. B. S. Chandler, W. T. Smith, A. A. Walker,
C. C. Beam, C. G. Long, C. W. Sommerville, S. B. McLean,
Lynn R. Walker, W. H. Johnston, J. C. McGehee, C H.
Rowan, T. M. Stribling, B. F. Yandell, J. A. CaHgan, E. G.
Gammon, T. H. Mitchell, W. C. Copeland, A. F. Doty, J. C.
Grier, W. G. Thomas, E. A. Dillard, J. F. Hardie, A. T.
Taylor, W. W. Akers, J. B. Reily, L. P. Burney, W. C.
Cooper, J. S. McFall, M. B. Prince, S. J. Hood, J. A. Mc-
Intyre, H. C. Carmichael, W. A. Nicholson, W. B. Neill.
The following ministers were not present. Those marked
(E) asked to be excused from attendance : J. W. Moore,
J. R. Bridges, M. E. Sentelle, G. P. Stevens, R. T. Coit, H. E.
Gurney, W. C. McLaughlin, R. S. Burwell, A. H. Temple,
R. H. M. Brown, W. S. Hamiter (E), J. A. McQueen (E),
W. P. Chedester (E), T. R. Alexander, J. L. Caldwell, A. L.
McDuffie, J. A. McQueen.
Elders: M. J. Harris, Albemarle; W. L. Belk, Altan ;
J. W. Miller, Amity; O. W. Potts, Banks; A. C Knox,
Bethel; W. B. Long, Bethlehem; D. A. McGill, Brainard ;
Dr. S. M. Henderson, Caldwell Memorial; C. B. Choate,
Central Steele Creek; F. H. Andrews, Charlotte First;
Wm. Anderson, Charlotte Second; S. B. McClure, Cook's
Memorial; J. L Proctor, Cornelius; A. N. Graham, Ham-
let; T. W. Stewart, Hopewell; J. L. Choate, Hunters-
ville; E. J. Stinson, Indian Trail; A. F. Tiddy, Lee Park;
A. S. McLaughlin, Mallard Creek; J. C. Smith, Marshville ;
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W. E. Kistler, McGee, W. A. Henderson, Monroe; C. H.
Trexler, Morven ; G. L. Neil, Mulberry; J. W. Thompson,
Myers Park; J. A. Auten, Nevin ; S. B. Wilson, Newells ;
J. H. Sloop, North Charlotte ; F. C. Efird, Oakboro ; D. E.
Clark, Pageland ; W. M. Wingate, Paw Creek ; T. V. How-
ell, Peachland; M. A. Galloway, Plaza; J. M. Miller, Phila-
delphia; W. F. McKee, Providence; J. W. Dewese, Ramah ;
W. J. Simms, Rehoboth ; D. L. Coppedge, Rockingham ;
R. W. Blackwelder, Seversville ; T. F. Black, Sharon; R. Z.
Query, Steele Creek; J. A. Pressley, Stevenson; J. D. Wood-
side, St. Paul; J. H. Robinson, Sugaw Creek; L. L. Bras-
well, Marshville ; L. S. Boyd, Tenth Avenue ; H. P. Cathey,
Thomasboro ; J. C. Turner, Turners ; Dr. J. E. Hart, Wades-
boro ; A. B. Norwood, Walkersville ; J. W. McCain, Wax-
haw ; Geo. F. Dunn, West Avenue ; D. S. Monteith, West-
minster; J. T. Hutchinson, Williams Memorial; C. P.
Haynes, Wilmoore ; W. A. Rogers, Pineville.
The following churches were not represented: Badin,
Bethany, Beulah, Biscoe, Camden, Cameronian, Candor,
Ellerbe, Lilesville, Locust, Macedonia, Mark's Creek, Mars-
ton, McLean Memorial, Midland, Midway, Morgan Me-
morial, Mt. Carmel, Mt. Gilead, Matthews, Norman, Nor-
wood, Palestine, Pee Dee, Pleasant Hill, Polkton, Porter,
Roberdell, Robinson, Rourk's Chapel, Salem, Siler, Six Mile
Creek, Stanfield, Star, Troy, Unionville, Wadeville.
Rev. S. B. McLean was nominated for Moderator and
elected by acclamation.
Rev. C. G. Long was elected temporary clerk.
Rev. S. J. Hood, chairman of the Committee on Arrange-
ments extended a most cordial welcome and submitted the
following report which was adopted :
COMMITTEE ON ARRANGEMENTS
Meet at 9 :30 a. m., April 16. Devotions led by Rev. C. G. Long.
Routine business following.
At 11 :30 a. m., Presbyterial sermon by Rev. M. B. Prince, Peach-
land, N. C; 12:30 p. m., adjourn for lunch; 2:00 p. m., re-assemble.
Rev. J. R. Walker, 20 minutes on A. & E. College work. Routine busi-
ness. Adjourn at 5 :30 p. m.
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At 6 :30 p. m., supper on grounds ; 7 :30 p. m., re-assemble. Meeting
on Home Missions led by Rev. A. A. Walker. Adjourn at pleasure of
Presbytery.
Respectfully submitted,
S. J. HOOD, Chairman of Committee.
The first order of the day for Wednesday morning was
fixed for hearing from Queens College.
Ruling elder H. P. Cathey presented the request of
Thomasboro Church to employ Rev. Geo. F. Robertson as
stated supply until the Fall meeting of Presbytery, which
was referred to the Committee on Calls and Supplies.
Presbytery adjourned with prayer led by ruling elder
Dr. R. H. Lafferty.
WEDNESDAY MORNING
Presbytery convened on Wednesday morning, April 16,
at 9:30, and opened with devotional period conducted by
Rev. C. G. Long.
The minutes of last night's session were read and ap-
proved.
The following standing committees were named by the
Moderator:
STANDING COMMITTEES
Sessional Records: T. H. Mitchell, W. G. Thomas, W. C. Cooper,
M. B. Prince, O. W. Potts, S, M. Henderson, J. W. Thompson, J. D.
Woodside, W. A. Henderson
Devotional: S. J. Hood and C. S. Harkey.
Bills and Overtures: T M. Stribling, M. J. Harris and J. A.
Auten.
Judicial Business: M. E. Peabody, J. H. Robinson, E. A. Dillard,
J. E. Hart and R. Z. Query.
Presbytery*s Home Missions: W. W. Akers, W. B. Mcllwaine,
J. C. Grier, W. H. Johnston, Q. N. Huneycutt, D. E. Clarke, D. L.
Coppedge, J. T. Hutchison.
Calls and Supplies: C H. Rowan, A. F. Doty, I. E. Wallace, S. B.
Wilson, A. B. Norwood.
Records of Presbytery: W. B. Neill, M. A. Galloway.
Leave of Absence: J. B. Reily, R. W. Blackwelder, W. B. Long.
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Minutes of Synod: C. H. Little, J. S. McFall, J. W. Miller, L. S.
Boyd, A. S. McLaughlin.
Presbytery's Assessments: J. C. Grier, W. A. Nicholson, J. F.
Hardie, C. P. Hayes, J. A. Brazington.
On Resolution of Thanks: L. P. Burney and A. F. Tiddy.
A certificate of dismissal from Kearney Presbytery, of
the Synod of Nebraska, of the Presbyterian Church, tJ. S.
A., was presented by Rev. A. H. Fraser, and he was ex-
amined by the Moderator on personal piety; by Dr. A. S.
Johnson on theology; by Rev. M. E. Peabody on church
government and the sacraments ; and after answering in the
affirmative the constitutional questions propounded by the
Moderator, the examination as a whole was sustained. xVfter
signing the covenant he was enrolled as a member of Meck-
lenburg Presbytery.
Elders McAlister Carson, of Charlotte First Church, and
Hunter Marshall, of the Myers Park Church, were given the
privileges of the floor in connection with the report of the
Committee on Schools and Colleges.
The following requests of churches for stated supplies
were read and referred to the Committee on Calls and Sup-
plies : for Dr. C. W. Sommerville from Hopewell ; for Dr.
W. H. Frazer from Mallard Creek ; for Dr. A. R. Shaw from
Williams Memorial ; for Rev. A. H. Fraser from McGee ;
for Rev. A. S. Anderson from Badin and Palestine ; for Rev.
H. C. Carmichael from Unionville group ; for Rev. M. E,
Peabody from Newells, and for Rev. J. G. Garth from
Providence.
The trustees of Presbytery submitted the following re-
port which was received as information :
REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF PRESBYTERY
Pursuant to authority vested in us at former meeting of Presbytery,
we wish to advise that we have transferred the property formerly known
as Albemarle Female Institute to Queens College, and it now forms part
of the endowment of that institution.
We have also, pursuant to authority vested in us by Presbytery, con-
veyed to Queens College the property located near Locust Level.
H. C ALEXANDER.
HUNTER MARSHALL, JR.
J. L. CHOATE.
Trustees for Mecklenburg Presbytery.
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Various other communications were read and referred
to the proper committees.
Rev. C. E. White, pastor at Marshville, having been
called to the Presbyterian Church of Chase City, Va., at Mr.
White's request, and the church concurring. Presbytery dis-
solved the pastoral relation between him and the Marshville
Church, and granted him a certificate of dismissal to Roa-
noke Presbytery.
The order of the day having arrived the Committee on
Schools and Colleges submitted its report, and pending
adoption Presbytery heard Messrs. McAlister Carson, pres-
ident of the Board of Trustees of Queens College, and
Hunter Marshall, also of the same Board of Trustees.
The hour to hear the Presbyterial sermon having ar-
rived, the report of this committee on Schools and Colleges
went over as unfinished business.
The Presbyterial sermon was preached by Rev. M. B.
Prince, of Peachland, from the text, Isaiah 53:12, on the
subject: "The Crucifixion of Christ."
Rev. J. B. Hood, pastor of the Pisgah A. R. P. Church,
was introduced and invited to sit as a visiting brother.
Presbvterv took recess for lunch at 12:30.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
Presbytery re-convened at 2 :00 p. m.
A special order for 10 a. m., Thursday morning, was
set for considering organic union with the United Presby-
terian Church.
An order was set immediately following this order for
considering an overture to the General Assembly touching
organic union with other churches.
The election of commissioners to the General Assembly
was held and the following were chosen to attend the meet-
ing at Charlottesville, Va., May 22:
Ministers— Principals: (1) J. W. Stork, (2i [. W.
Moore, (3) C. W. Sommerville, (4) C R. Nisbet, (S) C. H.
Little. Alternates: (1) S. J. Hood, (2) S. G. Gammon, (3)
T. M. Stribling, (4) M. B. Prince, (5) B. F. Yandell.
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Elders^Principals : (1) F. H. Andrews, (2) W. J.
Simms, (3) T. B. Spratt, (4) M. J. Harris, (5) Dr. J. E.
Hart. Alternates: (1) R. Z. Query, (2) Dr. S. M. Flenderson,
(3) R. G. Spratt, (4) S. B. Wilson, (5) C. H. Trexler..
The unfinished report of the Committee on Schools and
Colleges was taken up, unanimously adopted by a rising-
vote and is as follows :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
To the Presbyteries of Mecklenburg, Kings Mountain, and Gran-
ville, in session April 15, 1930.
Queens College opened on September 12, 1929, with an enrollment
of 307 students, all of whom are bona fide college students. The Fresh-
man Class was of a very high order, and we believe that without insti-
tuting any odious comparisons, we can say that altogether it is the most
promising class which has been enrolled in a long time.
The work for the year on the part of the students as a whole has
been very good, the college having lost only a limited number by return-
ing home because of inability to pursue the course of study and other
things of like nature. We are grateful to God for the fact that health
has prevailed so far among the boarding students, and that so far they
have not had a single case of extreme illness. A day pupil who was
visiting with her parents during the holidays, in Paducah, Ky., was
suddenly stricken there with appendicitis, and because of the hesitation
of operating the disease proved fatal.
The following is the financial rpeort for the year :
Accounts Receivable from Students $16,533.40
Cash in M. & F. Natl. Bank 1,100.00
Due from Benevolences __ 2,500.00
$20,133.40
Due on Salary Account Two Months $12,542.02
Approximate Expenses 5,000.00
$17,542.02
On May 27th there will be graduating with the A.B. degree 29
young ladies, six with the B.S. degree and one with the Public School
Music certificate.
The collections for endowment have been regular but slow. We have
collected and invested about $176,000.00, counting the lands and prop-
erties of Westminster, Stanley Hall, and Albemarle, at $25,000.00. The
college is now absolutely free of debt and has about $176,000.00 of in-
vested funds and interest-earning property to its credit.
The matter of greatest importance just now is the completing of the
agreement for the merger of Queens and Chicora Colleges, with the
Synod of South Carolina, by the ratifying of the contract by the owning
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and controlling Presbyteries of Queens College. This contract is sub-
mitted as a part of this report.
Nothing has been placed in our hands from Davidson College.
The session of Union Theological Seminary now drawing to a close
has been remarkable for the number of students enrolled (155) and for
the quantity and quality of work they have done.
But the great hinderer has also been busy. He does this often. It is
an easy way to injure the Kingdom. The contributions from the churches
for the year were less by almost $1,800.00^ decrease being $1,781.21.
It is a pity this blow should have come just at the time when the
seminary is faced with the necessity of making larger and better provi-
sions for teaching students in larger numbers. We cannot make present
resources cover the need, much less get our expanding work done on
less.
The lack of these eighteen hundred dollars may seem like a small
thing in these days when there is so much talk about thousands and mil-
lions, but it amounts to $5.00 per day, and this is a big thing in the
seminary where every twenty-five cent piece has to be carefully counted
before it is spent.
This Presbytery contributed in 1928-29, $872.31, and in 1929-30,
$990.23.
We are grateful for all that has deen done. We are not asking for an
increase in the quota, but we do ask that the designated ratio be observed.
This alone would help your seminary very greatly.
CHAS. R. NISBET, Chairman.
Recommendations
1. That Presbytery approve the agreement for the merger of Queens
and Chicora Colleges.
2. That the completion of the endowment of Queens College nec-
essary to entitle the college to become a full member of th Southern
Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools be urged before our
Church and that Presbytery reassert its purpose to co-operate with the
Trustees of Queens College in their effort to secure the same.
3. That Presbytery congratulate and commend Rev. W. H. Frazer,
President of Queens College, upon the dawning of a bright day, and
the entering upon a larger field of influence in the life of Queen's College.
4. That when Presbytery adjourns it be to meet at Queens College
at 11 a. m., May 5th, with Granville and Kings Mountain.
Respectfully submitted,
CHAS. R. NISBET, Chairman.
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Basis of Consolidation of Chicora College and Queens College
Whereas, the cause of Christian education among young- women in the
Presbyterian Church of the U. S. will be greatly strengthened by the
unification of certain educational units, and
Whereas, it appears that the coalition of Queens College and Chicora
College will conserve the heritage and materially increase the usefulness
of these institutions in serving the womanhood of the South ;
Therefore, be it Resolved : That the controlling bodies of these two
colleges, consisting of the Synod of South Carolina on the one hand, and
the Presbyteries of Kings Mountain, Granville and Mecklenburg of the
Synod of North Carolina on the other hand, do hereby enter into a mutual
agreement which shall become effective and binding when ratified by
these respective controlling bodies.
Now, therefore, in consideration of mutual covenants and agreements,
its is mutually agreed among the parties hereto as follows :
1. That the title of Queens College, a corporation organized and
existing under the laws of the State of North Carolina, and its suc-
cessors, shall be vested in' a Board of Trustees composed of thirty (30)
members, one-half of whom shall be elected by the Synod of South
Carolina and one-half of whom shall be elected by the Presbyteries of
Kings Mountain, Granville and Mecklenburg of the Synod of North
Carolina, and from other Presbyteries in the Synod of North Carolina,
or by the Synod of North Carolina, provided said bodies shall have been
given a share in the ownership of the said college.
2. That the Synod of South Carolina does hereby agree to liquidate
the assets of the Board of Trustees of Chicora College, pay off all indebt-
edness, dissolve the corporation or other entity now known and operated
as the Board of Trustees of Chicora College, and pay over the surplus
to the Trustees of Queens College, and the Board of Trustees of Chicora
College are hereby authorized and directed to carry out these provisions.
The Board of Trustees of Chicora College and the Synod of South Caro-
lina do hereby release, hold harmless, and forever discharge the other
parties hereto, and Queens College, Incorporated, from liability on all
debts, claims, demands, actions and causes of actions arising out of any
transaction or agreement entered into by the Board of Trustees of
Chicora College or its agents.
3. That the institution resulting from the affiliation of Queens Col-
lege and Chicora College shall be located in the City of Charlotte, State
of North Carolina,
4. That, for the time being, the name of Queens-Chicora College
shall be adopted, and the new Board of Trustees, as provided for in this
agreement, shall be vested with authority, if in their discretion they
deem it advisable, to change the name of the institution, taking into con-
sideration the goodwill and heritage of the affiliated colleges.
5. That all equity in the property of the Board of Trustees of
Chicora College shall be turned over to the new Board of Trustees of
Queens College, Incorporated, or its successors, as herein provided for
the purpose of erecting a dormitory, or for the purpose of increasing the
endowment, or for any other use or purpose that the new Board of
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Trustees of the new institution shall in their uncontrolled discretion
see fit to apply such funds. Provided, however, that any trust funds
which shall be turned over to the Board of Trustees of the consolidated
institution shall be applied according to the terms and stipulations of
the trust agreements creating these trusts.
6. That the Synod of South Carolina, in consideration of its inter-
est and holdings in the new institution, agrees to place the new institu-
tion on its budget for a fair percentage of the benevolence for Christian
Education as an expression of the interest of the Synod of South Caro-
lina in the education of its women ; and the Synod of South Carolina
further agrees that the new institution, to be known as Queens-Chicora
College, shall have access to the educational field now held by the Synod
of South Carolina. The said Synod of South Carolina endorses the new
institution and commends it as the official college for women in the
Synod of South Carolina, giving assistance and encouragement to the
new institution in its endeavor to secure a student body of the highest
type from that Synod.
7. That the scholastic records of all graduates and students of
Chicora College and Queens College shall be protected by this affiliation
in so far as the trustees of the consolidated institution are able to pro-
tect and safeguard these rights.
8. That the new institution, to be known as Queens-Chicora Col-
lege, will assume all responsibility for the raising of the present endow-
ment sufficient to place the institution on the membership list of the
Southern Association, and will not expect the Synod of South Carolina
at this time to engage in any campaign for that purpose.
9. That no limitation or discrimination shall be imposed upon the
number of students to be received from the Synod of South Carolina.
The new institution will make an open appeal for registration, and not
only allow but encourage as many students from South Carolina to enroll
as desire up to the filling of the capacity of the institution.
10. That due provision shall be made for Dr. S. C. Byrd and Mrs.
Byrd of the faculty of Chicora College.
11. That the new institution, to be known as Queens-Chicora Col-
lege, shall be both in name and in fact the official standard college for
women of all of the owning and controlling bodies and shall have and
enjoy their full and sincere acknowledgement and support in prayers,
patronage and gifts.
12. That the united efforts of the contracting parties be and are
hereby pledged to the continued development and progress of the new
institution for even greater efficiency and usefulness in the great cause
of Christian Education of young women in harmony with the standards
of the Presbyterian Church in the United States.
Duly ratified and adopted by the respective parties hereto as their
official act and deed upon the dates hereinbelow set forth.
Ratified by the Synod of South Carolina on this 24th day of March,
1930, in session held at Columbia, S. C. : John McSween, Moderator ;
H. W. Pratt, Stated Clerk ; W. G. Query, Chairman of Synod's Cojn-
mittee on Consolidation.
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Ratified by the Mecklenburg Presbytery, State of North Carolma,
on this the 16th day of April, 1930, in session held at Philadelphia, N. C. :
S. B. McLean, Moderator; J. G. Garth, Stated Clerk; C. R. Nisbet,
Chairman of Schools and Colleges.
Ratified by the Kings Mountain Presbytery, State of North Carolina,
on this the 15th day of April, 1930, in session held at Mollis, N. C. ; Rev.
W. D. Mclnnis, Moderator; Rev. W. J. Roach, Stated Clerk; Rev.
W. S. Wilson, Chairman of Schools and Colleges.
Ratified by the Granville Presbytery, State of North Carolina, on this
the 15th day of April, 1930, in session held at Varina, N. C. : C. J. Hol-
landsv^orth. Moderator ; J. S. Kennison, Stated Clerk ; J. R. Walker,
Chairman of Schools and Coleges.
In connection with the report of the Committee on
Schools and Colleges, the Stated Clerk was instructed to
wire Kings Mountain and Granville Presbyteries concern-
ing the matter of an adjourned meeting on May 5, in
Queens College.
The Stated Clerk reported that he had received a telegram stating
that Kings Mountain and Granville Presbyteries had unanimously ap-
proved of the consolidation of Queens and Chicora Colleges and agreed
to meet in joint session at Queens College on May 5th at 11 a. m,,
with Mecklenburg Presbytery to promote the interest of the institution.
Granville proposed to send a commission of five to the joint meeting.
A resolution concerning the retention of the R. O. T. C.
in Davidson College was introduced and referred to the
Committee on Bills and Overtures.
The following report of the Christian Education and
Ministerial Relief Committee was adopted as follows :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
AND MINISTERIAL RELIEF
We have under our care 19 candidates for the ministry and four
young people preparing for mission service, 14 of whom received aid
amounting to $1,725.00 from the Committee at Louisville, having been
recommended by your Committee.
The Central Committee also granted loans to eight students within
the bounds of this Presbytery amounting to $1,200.00.
Aid it\oni the Committee on Ministerial Relief amo'unting to
$5,685.00 went into the homes of 13 ministers during the past year.
The beneficiaries in this Presbytery received from the Committee
at Louisville during the past year a total of $8,610.00, while that Com-
mittee received from the Presbytery $9,561.05. However, the debt of
the Committee on Christian Education and Ministerial Relief increased
from $26,235.00 to $44,180.00.
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Recommendations
1. That the names of 10 laymen be added to the present Committee
on Ministers' Annuity Fund.
2. That the following appropriations be made by the Committee on
Christian Education and Ministerial Relief:
Name, address, monthly amount, respectively :
Mrs. Mary L. Arrowood, care Rev. Robt. S. Arrowood, Concord
N. C, $25; Rev. John L. Caldwell, D.D., (HR), 231 E. Jackson St
Orlando, Fla., $60; Mrs. Allie W. Cochran, Kimball, W. Va., $35;
Mrs. Rhoda I. Daniels, 802 Sunset Drive, Greensboro, N. C, $35; Rev.
Henry E. Gurney, 502 Hermitage Road, Charlotte, N. C, $50; Misses
Robie Joe and Elise Hardin (OR), 608 E. 5th St., Charlotte, N. C, $25;
Rev. W. S. Hamiter, 148 Pinckney St., Chester, S. C, $50; Mrs. Julia
B. Miley, 2014 E. 9th St., Charlotte, N. C, $25; Rev. L. H. Query
614 Seigle Ave., Charlotte, N. C, $45; Rev. A. R. Shaw (HR), Char-
lotte, N. C, $60; Rev. A. H. Temple, Route 2, Stanfield, N. C, $42;
Rev. W. C. Underwood, 1816 Plaza, Charlotte, N. C, $45 ; Mrs. Samuel
B. Lyerly, 504 E. 9th St., Charlotte, N. C, $50.
J. W. GRIER, Chairman.
The Moderator appointed the the following to select ten
laymen to act on the Ministers' Annuity Fund Committee :
W. H. Frazer, E. A. Dillard, J. W. Thompson, J. L. Choate
and William Anderson.
The report on Evangelism was submitted and was
adopted as follows :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON EVANGELISM
At the fall meeting of Presbytery, your Committee on Evangelism
reported 50 churches as having held special evangelistic meetings for a
total of 430 days ; resulting in 324 professions of faith in the Lord Jesus
Christ, 227 additions to our Church by profession of faith, and l(i addi-
tions by letter. Since the fall meeting of Presbytery six churches report
evangelistic meetings over a period of 48 days, with 40 professions of
faith, 29 additions by profession and 19 additions by letter, making a total
of 56 churches holding meetings over a period of 478 days, with 364
professions of faith, 256 additions by profession, and 95 additions by
letter, a grand total of 351 additions to our Church through special
evangelistic meetings.
One church has reported two Bible conferences, with splendid re-
sults ; but no statistics were furnished the Committee. Seventeen churches
report no meetings held. The other churches made no report.
No statistics can rcord, or set forth, the benefits that have come to
the churches through these seasons of prayer and special efforts to
bring men to a definite acceptance of the Lord Jesus Christ as their
Savior. One pastor, in reporting a meeting which was held in his church,
in which there were no professions and no additions, said : "The church
needed just such preaching." Your Committee is of the opinion, con-
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firmed by several years of special study of this subject, that the spiritual
benefits from evangelistic services would make it well worth while for
every church to hold at least one such series every year ; provided that
the Gospel of Jesus Christ as it is given in the Scripture be faithfully
preached, and that dependence be placed upon the Holy Spirit rather
than upon the manipulation of the congregation.
Notwithstanding our firm belief in the efficacy of special evangelistic
services, your Committee would sound a note of warning : There is a
danger that the Church may reach a point when the only effort put forth
to save men shall be during these meetings. No special services can take
the place of personal evangelism ; "The fire shall ever be burning upon the
altar ; it shall never go out." The river Nile overflows its banks once a
year, and makes that great Egyptian valley perhaps the most fertile
region on earth; but the river Nile flows steadily on all the year long.
The note of evangelism must be sounded from the pulpit throughout
the whole year ; personal evangelism must be constantly exercised to
bring the Church into the fellowship of power that belongs to the people
of God. A consecrated, diligent personal evangelism is the best antidote
to the poison of modernism and worldliness that has infected the Church.
It would be a sad day for our churches and for the world when the
unsaved folk living near our churches should get the idea that the only
time when they could find Christ, or when the Church is interested in
their salvation, is during a special evangelistic meeting. "Lift up your
eyes, and look on the fields ; for they are white already to harvest."
Unless otherwise ordered by Presbytery, your Committee will make
no recommendations for assignments to meetings this year. Practically
all our churches are supplied with pastors, and we believe that each
church should assume its own responsibility for such meetings. Never-
theless, your Committee will hold itself in readiness to serve you to the
best of its ability.
Recommendations
1. That our pastors and ruling elders study prayerfully their own
attitude toward the subject of evangelism, whether in special evangelistic
services, group meetings, or individual work for individuals.
2. That Presbytery urge every minister, as far as possible, to lend
himself to evangelistic work, when called upon, and especially in the
weaker churches ; our best efforts are needed here.
3. That the church where the meeting is held defray the expenses
of the visiting preacher.
4. That the churches be instructed to report all evangelistic meet-
ings held to the Committee on Evangelism, as follows : Name of preacher
conducting meeting, date, number of days meeting continues, number of
professions of faith, number of accessions by profession, and number of
accessions by letter. Self-addressed report cards will be sent to all the
churches for the purpose of this report before each regular meeting of
Presbytery.
5. That at the fall meeting of Presbytery an hour be devoted to the
study of evangelism under the direction of the Committee on Evangelism.
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6. That the Treasurer of the Presbytery be instructed to pay the
expenses of the Committee on Evangelism, a small item of report cards
and postage.
A. A. WALKER, Chairman.
Rev. J. R. Walker, of Granville Presbytery, presented
the v^ork of our Church in State Educational Institutions,
especially in North Carolina State College of A. and E., at
Raleigh, N. C, v^hich was received as information.
The Foreign Missions report was submitted and adopted
in full as amended and is as follows :
FOREIGN MISSIONS
The last year has been one of extraordinary blessing in our work
abroad.
Our Mid-China Mission reports, "Never before have we experi-
enced such willing audiences or so many opportunities for preaching."
The great Five-Year Evangelistic Movement in China for deepening
the spiritual life of the Church and doubling its membership in the next
five years, has met a widespread and eager response and is already
bearing rich fruit.
Says the North Kiangsu Mission, "If you friends could have seen
the joy and zeal with which the work in every branch was reported, you
would have been filled with new hope and desire as was each one pres-
ent at this last meeting of the North Kiangsu Mission."
Despite its depleted evangelistic force the Mexico Missions says,
"Reports from all over the field show very encouraging results of the
work done." Brazil and Korea sound a similar note.
Africa's report is almost a continuous pean of praise. So numerous
are its students for the ministry and so eager the native workers for a
better knowledge of the Word, that around our Mutoto Bible School
and Seminary "housing room has gone to such a premium," says the
official report, "that it has been necessary to strain every energy, as well
as the buget, to erect 100 temporary huts to care for the new families
entering."
In Japan the great "Kingdom of God Movement" for winning 1,000,-
000 new disciples is under way. All the Japanese churches and missions
are co-operating. It is led by Kagawa, one of our own mission con-
verts and the outstanding Christian leader of the Orient. Says our mis-
sion report, "It is bringing the Christian message to hundreds of thou-
sands throughout all Japan. Many thousands have publicly declared their
Christian faith, and great numbers have already united with the churches."
The report concludes with our missionaries' prayer for power from on
high, "because," they say, "on every side we see open doors of oppor-
tunity as never before."
If ever a Church was summoned of God to go forward in its work
abroad, it is the Southern Presbyterian Church.
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In contrast with these joyful facts are six most painful facts. To
each one of these six the Presbytery is urged to give deliberate and
prayerful consideration.
1. During recent years five-sixths of the Presbyteries have cut
down their percentage allotments to the Assembly causes. Secretary R. E.
Magill reports that official statements from the clerks of the 16 Synods,
regarding the 1930 budgets which these bodiese have adopted for Assem-
bly causes, show a cut of about $800,000 from the $3,000,000 asked for
by the Assembly.
2. During recent years the average cost of all that enters into For-
eign Mission work has risen 25 per cent.
3. Hence the reduction of our missionary force since 1926 from
516 to 427, a loss of 89, and the number is still falling.
4. Hence also the swiftly multiplying breakdowns on the field as
our shrunken force tries to keep the work going, while waiting recruits
are held back by lack of funds.
5. The receipts for the regular work for the year ending March 31,
1929, were the lowest in many years.
6. The receipts for the year just closed were lower still, being
only $1,079,904, increasing the debt from $174,659. to $245,505.
The above facts make it clear that the ecclesiastical arrangements in
force are steadily strangling the Church's Foreign Mission work (the
other Assembly causes being co-sufTerers), and that worse is certainly
ahead, unless immediate action be taken to remedy existing conditions.
Recommendations
That the Presbytery give itself to prayer and conference in behalf of
the Foreign Mission zvork, zvhich iis its ozvn mork, and that it take such
definite action as zmll in its judgment meet and remedy the situation and
open the zvay for the advance to zi'hich God is calling our Church.
That a Committee be apointed to' deznse some method uuhereby zve
as a Presbytery may change our declining support of Foreign Missions,
the Committee to report to the next adjourned meeting of Presbytery.
EDGAR G GAMMON.
The following were appointed Special Committee on
Foreign Missions : A. S. Johnson, J. M. Walker, L. R.
Walker, W. W. Akers, J. D. Woodside, C. B. Choate, J. W.
Thompson.
W. E. Price, Treasurer of Benevolence for Presbytery,
submitted his report, which was adopted as follows :
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FINANCIAL REPORT OF W. E. PRICE
Treasurer of Benevolence, Mecklenburg Presbytery
March 31, 1930
Causes Receipts Disbursements Balance
Presbytery's Home Miss.
Balance Forwarded, 1929 $ 3,587.33
Receipts 23,889.07 26,860.98 615.42
27,476.40
Foreign Missions 7,648.03 7,648.03
Orphanage 1,849.87 1,849.87
Assembly's Home Missions 3,582.00 3,582.00
Synod's Home Missions 1,776.31 1,776.31
Educational and Ministerial Relief 1,688.43 1,688.43
Schools and Colleges 2,181.68 2,181.68
Sunday School Extension 460.49 460.49
Training School 152.02 152.06
Lepers 35.00 35.00
Presbyterial Tax 23.00 23.00
Presbyterian League 10.00 10.00
Church and Manse Erection Bal., 1929 __ 174.50 174.50
$47,206.78 $47,178.66 $824.92
Respectfully submitted,
W. E. PRICE, Treasurer.
We hereby certify that we have carefully checked the books and
accounts of W. E. Price, Treasurer of Mecklenburg Presbytery, and
find same correct as per above statement.
J. L. WILLIAMSON.
J. F. JAMISON.
Auditors.
The report of the Treasurer of Presbyterial Tax was
adopted as follows :
REPORT OF TREASURER OF TAX FUND
J. G. Garth, State<I Clerk and Treasurer
Bank Deposits as per Statement $3,064.36
Received from Churches for Taxes During Year 2,705.05
Paid Out for Expenses as Listed 2,968.84
Balance in Bank, April 1, 1930 95.52
Expenses
Salaries
Stated Clerk, J. G. Garth $ 200.00
Permanent Clerk, J. W. Stork 30.00
Benevolence
Treasurer, W. E. Price, for 1928 100.00
Secretary of Stewardship 100.00
Auditor 25.00
$ 455.00
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A^essjnents
General Assembly 1,099.77
Historical Foundation 157.11
Synod's Tax for 1928, bal. 135.66
Synod's Tax for 1929 243.33
$1,635.87
Prmting
Presbyterian Standard 491.92
Von Boeckman Jones
Statistical Slips 9:50 501.42
Vacation Schools
To Com. of Religious Education 250.00
By Refund 54.31 195.69
Miscellaneous
Postage, Blanks, Etc. 126.55
Refund from Trustees for Expense
money not used 50.00 76.55 $2,864.53
Refunds Re-deposited 104.31
$2,968.84
Account audited and found correct.
J. F. JAMISON, Auditor.
The report of Woman's Work in the Presbytery was
submitted and adopted as follows :
WOMAN'S WORK
There are 67 membership auxiliaries with 5,115 members enrolled,
but with five not reporting.
The auxiliaries contributed as follows :
To denominational benevolences : Foreign Missions, $12,755 ; Assem-
bly's Home Missions, .$4,732; Christian Education and Ministerial Re-
lief, $2,126; Religious Education and Publication, $556; Assembly's
Training School for Lay Workers, $1,191; Bible Cause, $205; Synod's
Home Missions, $1,886; Orphans' Homes, $6,060; Educational Insti-
tutions, $2,657; Presbytery's Home Missions, $3,711; Auxiliary Special
Benevolences, $6,225. Total denominational benevolences, $42,104.
To local Church work : Local Auxiliary Contingent Fund, $3,691 ;
Presbyterial and Synodical Contingent Fund, $1,135 ; Building Expense,
$10,185. Total, local Church work, $15,641. Miscellaneous contributions,
$6,902. Grand total, all contributions, $64,647. Amount contributed per
capita, $12, Decrease from last year's contributions, $2,932.
Organization and Activities
The organizations are under control of Session and study the activi-
ties and needs of all our Church agencies. All but one are affiliated with
the Presbyterial Auxiliary. They have : Prayer Bands, 184 ; membership,
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2,332; Mission Study Classes, Foreign, IZ; members, 1,627; Home, 66,
members, 1,434; Stewardship Study Classes, 49; Auxiliary Bible Classes.
163; members, 2,816; Family Altars, 659; Tithers, 978.
The auxiliaries made canvasses: The Presbyterian Survey, 52;
Church Paper, 46.
Percentages of Auxiliaries reached the "Standard of Excellence :
Blue Circle Auxiliaries, 24; Silver Circle Auxiliaries, 18; Gold Circle
Auxiliaries, none.
W. B. McILWAINE, Chairman.
The report on Country Church Work was received and
adopted as follows :
REPORT OF COUNTRY CHURCH COMMITTEE
Your Committee has studied the policies adopted by our 1929 Gen-
eral Assembly with reference to the Country Church work ; also the report
of the sub-committee on the Country Church Work to the 1930 General
Assembly.
There are millions of country people who do not have adequate re-
ligious privileges, many of them located in communities where the peo-
ple are poor or scattered, making organized churches impractical. The
task is so large and the funds so insufficient that our Home Missions
agencies are unable to meet the destitution. If the work is to be done
we must rely largely upon the volunteer services of the men and women
of our organized churches. This should be the subject of prayer by all
of our churches on May 11, the day designated by the Assembly.
Most of our organized country churches need to put a new valua-
tion on the importance of their task, and to improve their program
along the lines of the Standard for Village and Country Churches adopted
by our last General Assembly. We therefore recommend :
Recommendations
1. That each of our churches through the session, the Men-of-the-
Church, the Woman's Auxiliary and other agencies, establish and main-
tain Sunday Schools among the country people.
2. That prayer be ofifered in all our churches on Rural Life, Sun-
day, May 11, for the spiritual welfare of the farm people both at home
and abroad, and that wherever possible country churches use the pro-
gram furnished by the Country Church Department, making the offering
for Foreign Missions.
3. That our village and country churches adopt the Standard ap-
proved by the last General Assembly and apply for the chart to the
Country Church Department, Box 1176, Richmond, Va.
Q. N. HUNEYCUTT,
S. J. HOOD.
F. S. NEAL.
Committee.
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The Judicial Committee reported that no business had
come to its attention.
Rev. J. G. Garth presented the Presbyterian Standard.
Rev. J. C. Grier, pastor of Mulberry Church invited Pres-
bytery to hold the Fall meeting in that church, which in-
vitation was accepted with a rising vote.
The time of the Fall meeting was set for 11:00 a. m.,
Tuesday, October 28, 1930.
Presbytery then took recess for the evening to re-
convene at 7:30 p. m.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Presbytery re-convened at 7:30 p. m.
The report of Presbytery's Executive Committee of
Home Missions was presented by the Chairman, Rev. J. M.
Walker.
The financial report of Presbytery's Home Missions
was submitted by W. E. Price, Treasurer.
Pending action, Rev. A. A. Walker, Superintendent of
Home Missions in the Presbytery, assisted by Rev. A. T.
Taylor, of the Marston group. Rev. M. B. Prince, of Peach-
land and Polkton, and Rev. W. C. Cooper, of the Oakboro
group, conducted a popular meeting in the interests of
Home Missions.
The report of this committee was referred to the Stand-
ing Committee on Presbytery's Home Missions.
Presbytery adjourned till tomorrow morning following a
prayer by Rev. J. W. Stork.
THURSDAY MORNING
Presbytery re-convened at 9:30 a. m. Thursday, April 17,
and Rev. J. S. McFall, of Morven conducted the devotional
period.
The minutes of yesterday's sessions were read and ap-
proved.
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The report of the Bills and Overtures Committee was
read, but preceding action, the matter of organic union with
the United Presbyterian Church was considered.
Dr. R. A. Dunn, an elder of the Charlotte First Church,
was extended the privilege of the floor in connection with
the discussion on organic union with the United Presby-
terian Church, and spoke as a representative of the Assem-
bly's Committee on Union with this Church.
Presbytery voted not to approve the Basis of Union with
the United Presbyterian Churcli as sent down by our Gen-
eral Assembly.
The report of the Bills and Overtures Committee was
considered seriatim.
Recess was taken for lunch.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON
Presbytery re-convened at 2 :(X) p. m.
The report of the Bills and Overtures Committee was
continued and adopted as follows :
BILLS AND OVERTURES
The Committee on Bills and Overtures recommend the adoption of
the following overtures : The first two were submitted by Rev. A. S.
Johnson.
1. The Presbytery of Mecklenburg respectfully overtures the Gen-
eral Assembly in session at Charlottesville, Va., May 22, 1930, to dis-
continue all committees looking to organic union with other churches,
except the Committee on Organic Union with the Associated Reformed
Presbyterian Church, for the following reasons :
1. Our own work is being handicapped and causes like the Ministers'
Annuity Fund and World Evangelization will be disturbed if this agita-
tion continues.
2. It tends to divide our own people and the consummation of such
a union will certainly leave a continuing church with all the sorrows and
heartaches connected with legal steps to protect those churches who
would still stand for the integrity of our Assembly and the protection
of its property rights.
3. Whatever agreement there might be among the different bodies
of Presbyterians, there are wide differences of practices and confessional
interpretations that would mean discord were those bodies brought to-
gether by organic union at this time.
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2. The Presbytery of Mecklenburg- respectfully overtures the Gen-
eral Assembly in session at Charlottesville, Va., May 22, 1930, to dis-
continue all relation and support to the Federal Council of the Churches
of Christ in America.
This overture is based on the following reasons :
1. The Federal Council is under the leadership of avowed liberals
in theology. It has been charged from reputable sources with being in
sympathy with Communism and the Russian Soviet propaganda. It is
now being investigated by the United States Congress for its political
activities on questions which Christ did not commission the church to
settle.
2. The Federal Council radio program has been the means of wide-
spread error of fundamental truth.
3. That Mecklenburg Presbytery overture the Board of Trustees
of Davidson College to retain the Reserved Ofiticers Training Corps at
the college. This overture was submitted by Rev. J. C. Grier.
T. M. STRIBLING.
M. J. HARRIS.
J. A. AUTEN.
Revs. C. H. Rowan, W. H. Johnston and S. B. McLean
asked that their vote be recorded as opposed to the last
resolution for continuing the R. O. T. C. at Davidson.
The Standing Committee on Presbytery's Home Mis-
sions submitted the following report Avhich was adopted :
STANDING COMMITTEE ON HOME MISSIONS
Your Standing Committee on Home Missions would make the fol-
lowing report :
We have read carefully the report of the Executive Committee on
Home Missions of this Presbytery and would commend the Committee
for its successful effort to keep all the fields supplied with a minister
the past year, realizing this is the most effective way to build up any
church or mission field.
Your Committee is pleased also, and would commend the building
program successfully carried out last year and would heartily approve
the Executive Committee's efforts to secure at the earliest possible time
self-support on the part of the churches aided, which is one effective way
of teaching and impressing stewardship and the spirit of liberality on
the part of the members.
Your Committee would express appreciation of the fine work and
faithful services of the members of the Executive Committee and of
the superintendent. Rev. A. A. Walker, and especially the self-sacri-
ficing and consecrated labors of the ministers in these home mission
fields who are doing such effective work in building up the Kingdom
of Christ in Mecklenburg Presbytery.
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Recommendations
We recommend the adoption of the report of this Committee, includ-
ing the recommendations.
W. W. AKERS, Chmn.
W. B. McILWAINE.
J. C. GRIER
W. H. JOHNSTON.
W. E. Price, Treasurer Home Missions Committee
Mecklenburg Presbytery
March 31, 1930
Receipts
Balance on Hand, Report March 31, 1929 $ 3,5^7.33
Rceived from Churches, Society and Auxiliary
Sunday Schools and Individuals 18,888.63
Dividends Commercial National Bank 24.00
J. F. Rogers, Note Paid 850.00
Candor Church Curtail on Note 50.00
Mechanics B. & L. Asso. Certificate 1,500.00
Merchants & Farmers Bank Certificate 2,000.00
Mutual B. & L. Asso. Certificate 200l00
Sale Allen Church Building 100.00
W. M. Moss Returned Overpayment 25.00
B. F. Yandell, Refund Bible School 65.19
Ellerbe Church Reimbursement on Note Paid 47.00
Interest on Cert. Deposit & B. & L. Cert 139.26
$27,476.40
Disbursements
Paid to Workers— Supt. Salary and Exp $17,885.97
Special Expenses A. A. Walker 36.78
Printing 15.00
Conference Expenses 13.65
B. F. Yandell Daily Vacation Bible Schools 300.00
Stamps — Treasurer 7.00
Insurance on Car 54.87
Expense Members Atendance Com. Meet 9.85
Roberdel Mense 430.10
Paint for Churches — Brainard, Oakboro, Locust-Morven 156.25
Thomasboro Church 250.00
Nevin Church Building 1,000.00
Norman Church B. & L 598.50
Difference Exchange Automobile 498.00
North Charlotte Church Bldg. (from fire ins.) 1,500.00
North Charlotte Church Building 1,500.00
Troy Church Building 2,000.00
Ellerbe Bldg. Notes, Jeflferson Stand. Life Ins 305.01
Lilesville Methodist Church, Use of Building 100.00
Oakboro Church Building for Roof 200.00
Balance on Hand 61S.42
$27,476.40
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Liabilities
Mt. Gilead Church— Unpaid Promise $ 500.00
Matthews Church— Unpaid Promise 1,000.00
Assets
Pontiac Sedan $ 500.00
2 Shares Stock, Com. Natl. Bank 400.00
B. & L. Certificate Oakboro Manse 400.00
Candor Church Note 350.00
$1,650.00
Respectfully submitted,
W. E. PRICE, Treasurer.
We hereby certify that we have carefully checked the books and
accounts of W. E. Price, Tresaurer of the Home Mission Committee of
Mecklenburg Presbytery, and find same correct as per the above state-
ment.
J. L. WILLIAMSON.
J. F. JAMISON.
Auditors.
REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF HOME MISSIONS
Mecklenburg Presbytery
For the Year Ending March 31, 1930
The Executive Commitee of Home Missions hereby presents to the
Presbytery its annual report, together with the Treasurer's report, prop-
erly audited and signed ; and would humbly record its gratitude to our
Heavenly Father for His continued blessings upon the work.
In making this report, we are deeply conscious of the incomplete-
ness of the record. Home Missions is a spiritual enterprise, and as such
its ministries cannot be properly portrayed through bare statistics. Only
the All-Seeing Eye ,and He that knoweth the intents of the heart, can
properly record the full service rendered by these faithful servants as they
labor from day to day, winning souls for the Master, building up the
church in its faith, strengthening the homes of the community, encourag-
ing the weak and comforting the sorrowing and distressed ones of the
earth. Many of their finest efforts never come to the surface. The rec-
ord, however, is faithfully kept in the Book on High, and no man need
fear that he will be overlooked, it mattrs not how hard and difficult
the work, and how obscure the field in which he labors.
I. The Objective
The ultimate purpose of Presbytery's Home Missions is to win all
the people of the Presbytery to a personal loyalty to Jesus Christ, and
to carry His Gospel with its saving and uplifting power to every nook
and corner of the Presbytery, and to help sustain those churches in this
work that are weak and cannot support themselves in carrying out this
task.
This is a work that is basic in the life of the whole Church. It is
laying the foundation upon which we may build larger things. As we
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look into it — and it never ceases to be surprising — what a large per cent
of the church leaders come from these activities ! Home Mission efforts
usually discover the springs that feed the rivers that fertilize the plains.
Practically every self-supporting church throughout the country began
as a mission point, A full appraisal of the church's assets in Presby-
tery's Home Missions would lead us to the conclusion that it is a wise
expenditure of funds that develops a growing home mission church, ever
increasing in power to do the work of the Kingdom. It is a great pro-
ductive agency, and in a few years begins to pay back in home mission
funds four-fold. Whatever may be the demands upon use elsewhere, we
must see to it that this cause is properly cared for. The life of the
Church is dependent upon it ; and our statesmanship as churchmen will
be revealed in the proportionate distribution of the budget funds which
we make for this cause.
II. Review of the Year
In a brief review of the year we can hope to touch upon but a few
of the many interesting matters that have come before us as we have
endeavored to prosecute our task. Each year presents its own problems
to us in varying aspects ; and the work never ceases to have its
attractions.
The past year has been unique in the sense that every field under the
care of the Committee has been supplied with a minister, and that con-
dition has obtained for most of the year. While we rejoice in it, and hope
that we may continue to keep all the fields supplied, still this was more
than we had hoped for, certainly more than we had counted upon, when
we made out our budget at the beginning of the year. And this has run
up our workers' expense account far beyond that of any previous year.
And while we closed the year with a small balance on hand, as will be
shown under the head of "Finances," this could not have been done had
it not been for the healthy balance we had built up in previous years.
Our receipts did not warrant the expenditure, and we have been forced
to reduce the appropriations in a good many fields for the coming year.
We do not anticipate, however, that this will injure the work. It is the
judgment of your Committee that we are already contributing in many
places more than is wise. Our appeal is that the churches affected will
more than make up for these amounts, which we have been compelled
to make by way of reduction. Our attention should be turned more and
more to the development of new work, and we cannot do this if all our
funds are consumed in paying salaries in old and long established churches.
1. Statistics:
We now have 51 churches and four mission points under the care
of the Home Mission Committee, grouped into 20 separate pastoral
charges. Including the Superintendent, and the Evangelist of Union and
Anson Counties, we now have 23 men on the field. During the year they
have had 267 professions of faith, 162 additions by professions, and 135
by letter.
With the beginning of the new year, the following churches become
self-supporting : Plaza, Badin and Palestine. We congratulate these
churches upon this new step, and bid them God's speed as they go
alone. Special mention should be made of the Plaza Church in this con-
nection ; moving a few years ago from Pegram Street, where it had had
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a struggling" existence, to the Plaza, and building the first unit of their
church plant, they have gone steadily forward till today, the church
occupies one of the important places in the church life of the city. With
their wise and energetic pastor leading them on, we hope for large things
for them in the near future.
We now have 45 church buildings on the home mission field. Many
of these are new buildings, and others are to be erected just as soon as
the way is clear. Of these 45 buildings, 29 of them are insured to the
amount of $85,800. We urge that the others be insured. We have 11
manses, all of which are insured. The church at Altan was destroyed
by fire during the year.
A study of the special statistics of the several churches, recently
received and compiled by our Superintendent, reveals some unusually
interesting facts. Among these is the fact that wherever a church has
a live Sunday School, and its members have been led to practice the
principle of Christian Stewardship, there you have a growing home mis-
sion church. But there is nothing unusual about this. It is just as you
would expect. We look for our additions from the Sunday School, and
rightly so, and growth in godliness will at once reveal itself in our gift.
In fact, faithfulness as a good steward is the best criterion the church
has of a man's religious experience. Neglect the Sunday School, and fail
to teach the principles of stewardship, and the church dwindles away,
takes the dry rot, and soon dies. Your Committee would urge Presby-
tery to lay this matter upon the hearts of our home mission men, and
prevail upon many of them to give more time and thought to the
building up of their Sunday Schools, and the putting into their churches
our approved system of finance; to insist that the Every Member Can-
vass be put on in every church, and made complete if possible. It is
unfair for a church to be receiving help when it should be helping itself,
and is well able to do so.
2. Building Program :
During the year, the following churches were completed : North
Charlote, at a cost of $15,000, only $4,500 of which remains to be paid;
Waxhaw, at a cost of about $12,000; Nevins, at a like amount, and
Tabernacle, at a cost of $10,000. The church at Troy is nearing com-
pletion at a cost of $18,000. The Altan Church, which was destroyed
by fire, is being rebuilt, and is to be complete by the first of July.
In our report of one year ago at Steele Creek, we listed the names
of seventeen home mission churches recently built in the Presbytery. Add
to that list these that we have mentioned above and you get some idea
of th great building program that has been going on, and the numerous
appeals that have come to the Committee for help. We have done the
best we could with the funds in hand.
The following churches need church buildings : Biscoe, Star, Rourks
Chapel, McLean Memorial, and Lilesville. These congregations are wor-
shipping in buildings belonging to sister denominations or in school
buildings.
We need manses for North Charlotte, Plaza, Marshville, Oakboro,
Troy, Badin, Marston, Morven and one for the Peachland and Polkton
group.
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3. Finances :
Total receipts from churches, societies, Sunday Schools, and indi-
viduals amounted to $18,888.63, as compared with last year's receipts
from the same source of $17,648.05. But included in this year's receipts
is the approximate sum of $3,000 that really belonged to last yearj^ but
was not so accredited because it came in after the Treasurer had closed
his books. Total receipts from all sources, including a balance of $3,587.33
with which we began the year, and certain asset funds held in trust for
building purposes, but withdrawn this year, all of which you will find
listed in the Treasurer's report, amounted to $27,476.40. Total expenses
for the year amounted to $26,860.98, leaving a balance on hand at the
beginning of this year of $615.42. In addition to that which we have
received through the Presbytery, Synod Home Missions Committee has
contributed $4,380.00 to the work, all of which has been administered by
your Committee.
III. Policies
1. It is the policy of the Committee to reduce all appropriations to
the field each year 10 per cent.
2. The Committee will expect every pastor engaged in home mission
work to live on the field he serves.
3. The Committee will expect all applications for aid in building
churches and manses to be made in writing. Such applications must show
cost of building contemplated and the amount of money already raised
for the same. Further, churches expecting to receive aid from the Home
Mission Committee in building either church or manse, are requested
to confer with the Committee in regard to the site, the style of building,
and the plan for financing the same, before they actually begin operation.
4. The Committee will expect every home mission church and manse
to be properly insured and care taken to see that this insurance is kept
in force.
5. Churches receiving aid from the Home Mission Committee are
expected to pay in full their apportionment to Presbytery's Home Mis-
sions, namely 15 per cent of the total benevolent budget.
IV. Recommendations
1. That Rev, A. A. Walker be re-elected Superintendent of Presby-
tery's Home Missions.
2. That Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine be re-elected Evangelist of Union
and Anson Counties.
3. That Presbytery grant the following supply : Bethlehem, Union-
ville, and Midland — H. C. Carmichael.
4. That a conference for the home mission workers and their wives
be held on June 10th at Ellerbe Springs, the expenses of which to be
borne by the Committee.
5. That Presbytery urge each church to pay in full its apportion-
ment to Presbytery's Home Missions, which is 15 per cent.
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6. That we hereby express our appreciation for the loyal support
which we have received from so many churches, societies, especially the
Woinan's Auxiliary, Sunday Schools and individuals, and pray that the
Presbytery may become 100 per cent loyal to this great cause.
7. That Presbytery approve the following appropriations for the
year 1930-31 :
Churches Presbytery
Indian Trail, Siler $ 1,000.00
Troy, Wadeville, Star 950.00
Ellerbe, Norman
Mt. Carmel 240.00
Oakboro, Stanfield
Locust 960.00
Morgan Memorial 300.00
Pageland, Beulah
Salem 660.00
Robinson 575.00
Peachland, Polkton 700.00
Roberdel, Brainard
Midway, Cameronian 600.00
Walkersville, Altan
Bethany, Rehoboth 320.00
Candor, Biscoe
Macedonia 630.00
Wilmoore 500.00
North Charlotte 960.00
Bethlehem, Midland
Unionville 960.00
Marston, McLean Memorial
Marks Creek, Rourks Chapel 980.00
Morven, Camden
Lilesville 810l00
Six Mile Creek 175.00
Lee Park, Turner
Stephenson 1,000.00
Union County Evangelist 600.00
Superintendent 3,000.00
Superintendent's Expenses l^OOO.OO
Incidental Expenses 500.00
Promised Mt. Gilead (Unpaid) 500.00
Promised Matthews (Unpaid) 1,000.00
Total $18,920.00
J. M. WALKER, Chairman.
The report of the Committee on Presbyterial Assess-
ments was adopted as follows :
PRESBYTERY'S ASSESSMENTS
Your Committee on Presbytery's Assessments would recpectfully
submit the following report :
The following churches have not paid their Presbyterial tax for the
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year 1928-1929: Monroe First, Marshville, North Charlotte, Oakboro,
Palestine, Plaza, Porter, Six Mile Creek, Siler, Stanfield, Star, Stephen-
son, Tabernacle and Wadeville. Hopewell has paid only part of the
tax for 19-28-1929.
We recommend :
1. That the churches listed above be urged to pay their tax as soon
as possible as the money is badly needed by the Clerk to pay his bills for
the Presbytery.
2. We would call attention of Presbytery to the fact that in some
cases the Presbyterial tax is paid out of the fund for benevolence. It
appears to this Committee that the Presbyterial tax should come out of
the funds for current expenses.
J. C. GRIER.
J. F. HARDIE.
W. A. NICHOLSON.
The report of the Committee on Vacancy and Supply re-
ported as follows, which report was adopted :
VACANCY AND SUPPLY
Your Committee of Vacancy and Supply beg leave to report that
we have tried to function all during the year. We have offered our
help to vacant churches as opportunity permitted, and they have used
our services in securing supplies. A member of this Committee, Ruling
Elder W. E. Price, conducts a bureau of temporary supply for churches
whose pastors are absent, and has been in touch with ministers available
for supply work, and has often made appointments.
We stand ready to assist churches or ministers, and when a minister
has an open date, we will appreciate his telling Mr. Price of it.
With reference to the Assembly's bureau conducted by Rev. J. D.
Leslie, D.D., of Dallas, Texas, Stated Clerk of the Assembly, he reports
that 190 ministers have registered with his office. During eleven months
64 ministers have been removed from this list of registrants, having made
some connection with a church, while in the same period 80 other min-
isters have registered with the bureau.
Churches also are registering and the efficiency of the bureau seems
to be growing. The vacant churches last year were fewer than for sev-
eral years. It is desirable for vacant churches to furnish information to
the Assembly's bureau in order that it may be better prepared to recom-
mend suitable men for their work,
A, A. WALKER, Chmn.
W. E, PRICE.
J, G. GARTH.
The report of the Committee on Sessional records was
adopted as follows :
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SESSIONAL RECORDS
The Committee on Sessional Records in submitting its report would
call attention to some features of proper sessional administration and
recording toward which there is a noticeable prevalence of remissness
in the records submitted at this meeting of Presbytery.
1. It is not clear in most sessional minutes what is the originating
authority for the meeting — whether a regular stated meeting is being
held, or one called by the pastor, or otherwise authorized. In any other
delegated body such fact is an important matter for record. In the case
of most churches it is not clear that the session ever holds a stated
meeting. Yet Church Order specifically stipulates that each session shall
arrange for and hold stated meetings at least quarterly.
2. There is frequent failure to record approval of minutes of session.
3. One matter that seems quite generally omitted from records is
that any official attention is given by the session to minutes of higher
courts for the purpose of ascertaining any call therefrom for sessional
or congregational action. No exception has been made by this Committee,
however, against individual churches on this point.
4. Many sessions are still failing to provide the required conveni-
ence of a conspicuous outside cover label on their books, giving the name
of the church.
5. The following churches failed to submit records to this Com-
mittee at this meeting of Presbytery : Bethlehem, Biscoe, Candor, Lee
Park, Locust, Macedonia, Marshville, Matthews, Midland, Midway, Mor-
gan Memorial, Palestine, Polkton, Porter, Robinson, Six Mile Creek,
Stanfield, Star, Stevenson, Troy, Turner, Unionville, Wadeville.
Respectfully submitted,
T. H. MITCHELL, Chairman.
The following report concerning Men's Work was
adopted :
DEPARTMENT OF MEN'S WORK
Your Committee on Men's Work would present the following report :
Our examination of the reports of sessions sents to this Presbytery,
if accepted at their face value, reveal a most discouraging situation in
regard to this important department of our Church's work in Mecklen-
burg Presbytery.
Only twelve churches report Men's Bible Classes, with a member-
ship of 1,070. Five churches report Men-of -the- Church organizations,
with a combined membership of only 163. Six churches report Men's
Clubs, with a membership of 700.
The contributions from all forms of organizations reported are
$10,336, and it should be said, in all fairness, that the Men's Clubs of
the First and Second Churches of Charlote contributed of this sum
$9,118.
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If we believed that these reports received by us represented the
entire work of the men of our Presbytery the situation would be startling.
We are satisfied the work has not been adequately reported. An example
of this is found in the fact that only twelve Men's Bible Classes are
reported. There are probably three times that many. Furthermore, the
sessions reports convince us that there is much confusion in the minds
of many sessions in regard to what should be reported under Men's
Work. To correct this we believe the report forms should be simplified,
making each form of Men's Work, upon which a report is desired, stand
out by itself distinctly and blank spaces left for information under each
form. As, for example, under these distinct heads : Men's Bible Classes,
Men's Clubs, Men-of-the-Church, etc., and blank spaces for information
desired under each.
In regard to the Men-of-the-Church we believe the organization
should be more flexible, and so more adaptable, if we are to secure ready
acceptance of the name and of the organization by our churches for
Men's Work.
While making the above statement of opinion, we recognize the
splendid features of the organization as now constituted and that where
it can be accepted in its entirety it is almost ideal.
We would therefore ask the adoption of the following recommenda-
tions :
1. That the Department of Men's Work of our Assembly be
approved.
2. That the Men-of-the-Church organization be given a place on
the docket of all our churches at an early date for the careful, thor-
ough and prayerful study of the organization and that preparatory to
this meeting literature be ordered from the Atlanta oflice.
3. That a committee on organization be appointed by sessions to
make further study of the organization and to set up the organization
whenever it shall seem practical, according to the Constitution.
4. That a group of churches constituting a pastorate, when it is not
possible to set up the organization in each church, be organized as one
organization with a working group in each church of the group.
5. That we request Doctor Purcell to arrange at least one Training
School in our Presbytery.
Respectfully submitted,
LYNN R. WALKER, Chairman.
The following report on Calls and Supplies was adopted :
CALLS AND SUPPLIES
Your Committee on Calls and Supplies would respectfully submit the
following report :
We recommend that the requests of the following churches for stated
supplies until the fall meeting of Presbytery be granted :
Thomasboro Dr. George F. Robertson
Mallard Creek Dr. W. H. Frazer
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Badin and Palestine Rev. A. S. Anderson
Williams Memorial Dr. A. R. Shaw
Providence Rev. J. G. Garth
McGee Rev. A. H. Frazer
Hopewell Dr. C. W. Sommerville
Newell Rev. M. E. Peabody
C. H. ROWAN, Chairman.
The following report of the Committee on Nominations
was adopted as follows :
NOMINATIONS
We, your Committee on Nominations, recommend as follows :
1. The re-election of the present Committee on Home Missions.
2. The election of Rev. L. B. Burney as General Chairman of Re-
ligious Education.
3. That Rev. W. A. Nicholson be made Chairman of Bible Cause.
4. That Rev. J. W. Stork be substituted for Rev. C. H. Rowan, re-
signed, on the Executive Committee of Home Missions.
Respectfully submitted,
T. M. STRIBLING, Chairman.
The following report on Synod's Minutes was adopted :
SYNOD'S MINUTES
The Committee on Synod's Minutes have examined the minutes.
We find no items that need special mention.
Respectfully submitted,
C. H. LITTLE. .
J. S. McFALL, JR.
J. W. MILLER.
L. S. BOYD.
A. s. Mclaughlin.
The report on Leave of Absence was adopted as follows :
LEAVE OF ABSENCE
We recommend the following be excused from session of Presbytery
as indicated below :
After the Wednesday morning session, W. C. Copeland, J. C. Turner.
After Wednesday afternoon, S. B. McClure, J. A. Presley, M. E.
Peabody, T. W. Stewart.
After Wednesday night, J. A. Caligan, Dr. J. E. Hart, D. L. Cop-
pedge, J. L. Choate.
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After Thursday afternoon, Dr. J. F. Hardie.
Tuesday night and Wednesday, Dr. C. W. Sommerville.
Tuesday and Wednesday, W. G. Thomas.
Thursday, A. T. Taylor, O. W. Potts.
Thursday afternoon, R. J. Mcllwaine, Q. N. Hunneycutt, E. J.
Stinson, G. W Fesperman.
Thursday afternoon after 4 o'clock. Dr. A. S. Johnson, Dr. C. R.
Nisbet.
From this meeting of Presbytery, W. P. Chedester, W. S. Hamiter,
and J. A. McQueen.
A verbal report was made by Rev. W. B. Neill that Pres-
bytery's printed minutes had been well prepared and no
criticism was offered.
The following report on Religious Education was
adopted :
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
The Committee on Religious Education reports as follows :
I. Department of the Sunday School
1. There were 89 churches reporting Sunday Schools this year. This
is an increase of eight schools over last year and is commendable.
2. The following churches have reported no schools for the past
two years : Biscoe, Lilesville, Midland, Palestine, Pee Dee, Porter, Six
Mile Creek, Stanfield, Star, Unionville and Wadesville. Pee Dee, how-
ever, has a Union Sunday School. Matthews and Hopewell did not send
in their reports. We urge pastors of churches not having Sunday Schools
to try to arouse sentiment in this direction.
3. Only 38 churches reported additions of pupils on profession of
faith. It should be the aim of the Sunday Schools to bring their pupils
into the Church.
4. Only eight churches have a Home Department.
5. A letter from R. E. Magill informs us that the amount given
to Sunday School extension and publication for this year is $2,970.95,
against $3,156.75 last year, or a falling off of about $200.
6. We note that many of the schools do not teach the hymns, Bible
and catechisms.
We therefore recommend that the work of the Sunday Schools be
an object of work and prayer on the part of the pastor,s and people and
that the teaching of the catechisms be stressed.
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II. Department of Young People's Work
In compiling the statistics of the Young People's Work we are grati-
fied at the material increase over last year. We now have 50 organiza-
tions reported as against i6 last year, with a corresponding increase of
membership. Twenty-eight churches made no report as to Young Peo-
ple's Work. The membership is as follows : Senior Christian Endeavor,
1,551; Intermediate Christian Endeavor, 437; Junior Christian Endeavor,
620 ; Young People's League, 125 ; other forms, 195, making a total mem-
bership of 2,928. The contributions from these societies last year amounted
to $2,676. Of these organizations 48 are under the control of the session,
two are not, 38 are affiliated with Christian Endeavor and 11 with Y. P.
Presbyterian League; 21 followed the progressive program while 23 did
not.
We recommend that wherever there are enough young people in
the church to effect an organization, that interest be aroused in this
important form of work. That the progressive program be followed
whenever possible.
The Young People's Conference of Mecklenburg Presbytery will be
held at Banner Elk, N. C, July 7-11. Each church is asked to select two
delegates and send their names together with the registration fee of one
dollar. The expense of the conference will be six dollars per delegate,
a total cost of seven dollars. For further information write Rev. E. A.
Dillard, 306 Crescent Avenue, Charlotte, N. C. If you do not wish to
send the delegates asked for, please notify Mr. Dillard so that others may
be given the privilege of going.
SABBATH SCHOOLS— SUMMARY
Number schools, 89; total regular pupils, 12,544; Cradle Roll — 1,
2, and 3 years, 826; Home Department, 346; Officers and Teachers — all
Departments, 1,310. Total membership, 15,034. Pupils added to the Church
on confession during the year, 316.
Contributions to denominational benevolences : Foreign Missions,
$3,435; Assembly's Home Missions, $910; Christian Education and Min-
isterial Relief, $918; Religious Education and Publication, $1,222; As-
sembly's Training School for Lay Workers, %l?i; Bible Cause, $119;
Synod's Home Missions, $347; Orphans' Homes, $3,796; Educational
Instituions, $141 ; Presbytery's Home Missions, $382. For current ex-
penses of school, $16,522. Miscellaneous contributions, $4,160. Grand total,
all contributions, $31,195.
YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK— SUMMARY
Membership Senior Christian Endeavor, 1,551 ; Intermediate Chris-
tian Endeavor, 437 ; Junior Christian Endeavor, 620 ; Young People's
League, 125; other forms, 195. Total, 2,928.
Contributions to denominational benevolences: Foreign Missions, $664;
Assembly's Home Missions, $55 ; Christian Education and Ministerial
Relief, $66; Publication and Sabbath School Work, $31; Assembly's
Training School for Lay Workers, $24; Bible Cause, $2; Synod's Home
Missions, $7; Orphans' Homes, $119; Educational Institutions, $14; Pres-
bytery's Home Missions, $10. Total, denominational benevolences, $1,000.
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Contributions to local church work : Pastor's Salaries, $72 ; Current
Expenses, $633 ; Congregational Missions, $38 ; Building Expense, $416.
Total, local church work, $1,159, Miscellaneous contributions, $517. Grand
total, all contributions, $2,676.
Organization and Activities
Are the organizations under control of Session? Yes, 48; no, 2. Are
they affiliated with Christian Endeavor ? 38 are. Are they affiliated with
the Y. P. Presbyterian League? 11 are. Are they following the outline
of the Progressive Program in their work ? 27 yes ; 23 no. Do they
promote the following activities: (1) Spiritual? 50; (2) Mental? 50;
(3) Physical? 50; (4) Social? 50. Sixteen report no work; 28 made no
report; 50 report organizations.
M. B. PRINCE, JR.
The following recommendation of the Committee on
Sabbath and Family Religion was adopted:
THE SABBATH AND FAMILY RELIGION
We recommend that our ministers and laymen, the Sabbath Schools
and societies of the Church, continue to avail themselves of the splendid
free literature provided by our Committee of Publication on the Sabbath
and the Christian Home, and that we work for a more general partici-
pation in the support of the Lord's Day Alliance and other promotive
agencies of these institutions.
The salary of the Stated Clerk of Presbytery was in-
creased from $200.00 to $300.00 per annum.
The installation of Rev. W. A. Nicholson as pastor of
Pineville and Banks was reported and adopted as follows :
INSTALLATION OF W. A. NICHOLSON
The installation services were held on February 23rd as follows :
At Banks in the morning of the above date at 11 o'clock. Present, Rev.
S. B. Lyerly, who presided, propounded the constitutional questions, and
charged the pastor ; Rev. W. B. Mcllwaine, D.D., who preached the
sermon; Ruling Elder Nat C. White, who charged the congregation.
Rev. Wm. E. Mcllwaine, D.D., of Florida Presbytery, was also present
and was invited to sit with the Commission as a visiting brother. He
offered a prayer.
At Pineville Church on the same date but at 7 :30 P. M. Present,
Rev. S. B. Lyerly, who presided, propounded the constitutional ques-
tions, and charged the congregation; Rev. W. H. Frazer, D.D., who
preached the sermon ; Ruling Elder W. E. Price, who charged the pastor ;
Ruling Elder H. M. Nicholson.
In both instances the Commission was organized and constituted,
and conducted the proceedings in accordance with provisions of the Con-
stitution of the Presbyterian Church in the United States.
W. B. McILWAINE.
S. B. LYERLY.
N. C. WHITE.
W. E. PRICE.
W. H. FRAZER.
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The Statistical report of Presbytery to the General As-
sembly was presented by the Stated Clerk which was
adopted and ordered sent to the General Assembly.
The report of the Chairman and Secretary of Steward-
ship was submitted and adopted, and permission being
granted the Secretary of Stewardship to complete the re-
port before the printing of the Minutes.
STEWARDSHIP REPORT
In obedience to Presbytery's direction the Secretary of Steward-
ship arranged for a Day of Prayer to be observed by the Presby-
tery in preparation for the annual Every Member Canvass. This
service was held in the First Presbyterian Church of Charlotte, N.
C, on February 17, 1930. At this conference Rev. W. H. Frazer,
D. D., Rev. C. R. Nisbet, D.D., and Rev. E. A. Dillard spoke on
certain phases of stewardship, bringing messages that were in-
structive and inspiring. About two dozen persons were present to
hear these addresses.
In the fall of 1929 the Synod of North Carolina sent down to
the Presbytery of Mecklenburg an apportionment for benevo-
lences totaling $217,000, which was distributed according to the
following schedule of percentages and amounts :
I. Assembly's Causes 60.0% $130,200
1. Foreign Missions Z2>.y/c $72,261
2. Home Missions 16.0% 34,720
3. Christian Edu. & Min. Relief 7.5% 16,275
4. Religious Edu. & Publication 2.0% 4,340
5. Assembly's Training School .6% 1,302
6. Bible Cause .6% 1,302
II. Synod's Causes 25.0% 54,250
1. Home Missions 7.5% 16,275
2. Orphans' Home 7.5% 16,275
3. Schools and Colleges 8.1% 18,879
4. Union Theological Seminary 1.3% 2,821
III. Presbytery's Causes 15.0% 32,550
1. Home Missions 15.0% 32,550
Total $217,000
This sum of $217,000, the askings of the Synod, was accepted by
the Presbytery as its benevolent goal and was then apportioned to
the churches according to the schedule as published in the minutes
of the 120th Stated Session of Mecklenburg Presbytery.
By means of correspondence and personal visits to some churches
Presbytery's Secretary of Stewardship made such preparation as he
was able for the Every Member Canvass on March 16, 1930. The
results of that canvass as reported to Presbytery show that 65
churches have pledged $127,472 for benevolences from 6,069 sub-
scribers ; and 72 churches have pledged from 7,161 subscribers $181,-
465 on a total Current Expense Budget of $208,544.
44 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
Twenty-nine churches made no report of any results of an
Every Member Canvass for benevolences. The churches failing to
make such report are : Bethel, Biscoe, Candor, Cornelius, Hopewell,
Huntersville, Lilesville, Locust, Macedonia, Mallard Creek, Marsh-
ville, Matthews, Midland, Morgan Memorial, Nevin, Norman, Oak-
boro, Palestine, Porter, Rockingham, Salem, Six Mile Creek, Stan-
field, Stephenson, Tabernacle, Thomasboro, Wadeville, Waxhaw,
West Avenue.
The fact that we have pledged only $127,472 of a total benev-
olent budget of $217,000 ($90,000 short of our goal!) causes a feeling
of some misgiving; but we are reminded that many of our people
are traditionally averse to making pledges and will often pay
when they do not pledge, so that the final results of the canvass
may not be so distressing as present circumstances seem to in-
dicate. There is at least a challenge in the situation that confronts
us : of 94 churches in our Presbytery only 65 of them indicate
their interest in the larger work of the Kingdom, and of 16,000
members in those churches only 6,000 of them are reported as
pledging their support to the benevolent work of the church.
This condition challenges us to renewed zeal in the teaching of
stewardship and to continued faithfulness in prayer for all de-
partments of the Master's work.
From stewardship reports to Presbytery we gather sdme
interesting facts with regard to money invested in church and
manse property: 82 churches reported are valued at $2,047,000;
40 manses are valued at $215,000, making a total of $2,262,000.
However, some of the most valuable property was not reported.
There is a debt of $388,000 on this property.
We offer the following recommendations :
1. That our ministers and church leaders be urged to keep up the
campaign of instruction in stewardship principles and obligation,
seeking to overcome the aversion to making pledges in a business-
like way for the support of the church's benevolent work.
2. That our churches be urged to make use of the publicity re-
sources of the Stewardship Department, 305 Henry Grady Build-
ing, Atlanta, Ga., in keeping our people informed as to the progress
and needs of the whole work of the Church.
3. That our churches be urged to remember that the benevolent
goal of our Presbytery is $217,000 (by virtue of Presbytery's vote of
acceptance) instead of the $127,472 reported from the Every Member
Canvass, and that the individual church has a corresponding obli-
gation.
4. That all pastors and other leaders be urged to co-operate fully
with the Stewardship Department in the renewed effort to enroll
members in the Stewardship League.
5. That the Stewardship Honor Roll of churches paying each
month one-twelfth of their promised budget for benevolences be
heartily commended to all churches.
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6. That the "Up-a-Step" plan of the Stewardship Department for
observing quarterly pay-up days be commended to all churches.
7. That the Presbyterian Progressive Program as revised and
now fully and completely adapted to the various church groups be
commended to all churches for universal use as the best available
outline of the year's Kingdom Promotion,
8. That the leaders in all churches co-operate in the endeavor to
secure subscriptions in every family for one of our church papers,
the Presbyterian Survey, and the Program Builder.
Respectfully submitted,
By order of the Committee,
W. H. JOHNSTON, Secretary.
Note: See Appendix for Every Member Canvass and Value of
Church Property.
The Special Committee on the Manual was continued.
The following resolutions of appreciation to the hostess
church were adopted :
RESOLUTION OF THANKS
The Committee on Thanks is pleased to submit the following
report :
The Presbytery of Mecklenburg in its 121st stated session ex-
presses its deep gratitude to a wise leading Providence for directing
it to this historic and beautiful location for the transaction of the
King's business.
We desire to express our appreciation to the pastor and the
people of Philadelphia Church for their warm welcome and cordial
spirit of Christian fellowship both in the church and in their homes.
To the ladies of the church and community we extend our
sincere thanks for their gracious hospitality and beautiful provision
of delicious food day by day.
We_ depart with lasting memories of this session of Presbytery,
invoking God's blessing upon the mutual ministry of the pastor and
people in this midst.
We suggest a copy of this paper be placed in the hands of the
pastor to be read to the congregation.
L. P. BURNEY, Chairman.
A. F. TIDDY.
A copy of which is to be presented to the church.
The absence of certain brethren was noted and the Clerk
was instructed to correspond with them as to their reasons.
And a special letter of sympathy was directed to be sent to
Rev. Robert T. Coit, who was sick.
46 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
The Minutes of today's sessions were read and approved.
The roll was called and following prayer by elder Wm.
Anderson, Presbytery adjourned to meet in Queens Col-
lege, May 5, 11:00 a. m.
S. B. McLEAN, Moderator.
J. W. STORK, Permanent Clerk.
C. G. LONG, Temporary Clerk.
J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
ADJOURNED MEETING
Queens College, May 5, 1930.
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in adjourned session in the
administration building of Queens College at 12 o'clock,
May 5, 1930. Rev. S. B. McLean, Moderator, presided. The
meeting was opened with prayer by Rev. J. M. Walker.
The following were present :
ROLL
Ministers: S. B. McLean, J. G. Garth, C. W. Sommer-
ville, W. B. Mcllwaine, H. C. Carmichael, J. F. Hardie, J. W.
Grier, W. C Underwood, J. S. McFall, W. C. Cooper, M. B.
Prince, L. P. Burney, S. J. Hood, J. M. Walker, J. C. Grier,
W. B. S. 'Chandler, W. W. Akers, W. H. Johnston, C. H.
Rowan, C. R. Nisbet, W. A. Nicholson, B. F. Yandell, C. H.
Little, J. A. Mclntyre, E. G. Gammon, A. S. Johnson, M. E.
Peabody, W. H. Frazer, R. S. Burwell, A. E. Dillard, J. R.
Bridges, L E. Wallace.
Elders: J. T. Robinson, Sugaw Creek; R. Z. Query,
Steele Creek; R. L. Choate, Huntersville ; F. H. Andrews,
Charlotte First, Wm. Anderson, Charlotte Second; J. W.
Miller, Amity.
The Stated Clerk gave the following report of a joint
meeting of this Presbytery, Kings Mountain, and a com-
mission from Granville Presbytery, which was received as
information :
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JOINT SESSION
Mecklenburg, Kings Mountain, and Granville Presbyteries
A joint session of Mecklenburg Presbytery, Kings Mountain and
Granville Presbyteries met at Queens College Chapel, Charlotte,
N. C, at 11 a. m. May 5, 1930.
Dr. I. S. McElroy, of Kings Mountain, was elected chairman of
the meeting. The meeting was led in prayer by Dr. C. R. Nisbet.
The stated clerks of the three presbyteries were appointed joint
clerks of the meeting.
The chairman read the action of Mecklenburg Presbytery of Feb-
ruary 17, asking for the joint meeting, and it was ascertained that
Kings Mountain Presbytery had ratified the merger of Queens and
Chicora Colleges, and agreed to meet on this occasion in joint ses-
sion. It was also reported that Granville Presbytery had ratified the
merger, and had appointed a commission of five to meet at Queens
College at this time.
Dr. W. H. Frazer, president of Queens College was called on to
state the reasons for raising $116,000 to complete the Endowment of
the College.
Mr. McAllister Carson, president of the Board of Trustees of
Queens College and Mr. Hunter Marshall, a member of the Board
were given the privileges of the floor.
A resolution was submitted by Dr. C. R. Nisbet and adopted as
follows :
RESOLUTION FOR RAISING THE QUEENS COLLEGE
ENDOWMENT
The committee appointed by the Presbytery of Mecklenburg
at a recent meeting to draw up a resolution upon the question of
raising the Fund necessary to complete the Endowment Fund of
Queens College to wit: $116,000.00, held a meeting with Mr. Mc-
Alister Carson, President of the Board of Trustees, Mr. Hunter
Marshall, attorney for the Board, and Rev. W. H. Frazer, President
of the College, and after mature deliberation makes the following
recommendations to the three presbyteries in the Synod of North
Carolina having control of the College.
1. That the Board of Trustees of Queens College be authorized
to put on a campaign to raise the above amount or any other
amount which may be necessary to guarantee the accrediting of
Queens College as an A-grade four-year College in the Southern
Association of Colleges- and Secondary Schools.
2. That in the raising of this fund the said Board of Trustees
be encouraged to employ a suitable man to direct the campaign,
and solicit funds from individuals throughout the Presbyteries.
3. That a Committee consisting of two members from the
Presbytery of Mecklenburg, and one each from the Presbyteries of
48 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
Kings Mountain and Granville, be appointed to act in conjunction
with a similar committee from the Board of Trustees of the College,
in giving direction and arranging the details of the campaign.
Respectfully submitted,
CHAS. R. NISBET, Chairman.
JAS. F. HARDIE.
S. B. McLEAN.
The report of Committee of Schools and Colleges of
Mecklenburg Presbytery was again referred to the Presby-
teries in session.
The joint meeting adjourned to meet again at 1 :45 this
afternoon.
The Presbytery then adopted the paper referred to this
body by the joint session entitled a Resolution for Raising
the Endowment of Queens College, which is rcorded above.
The Moderator and Dr. W. H. Frazer were appointed to
select the committee to act with other presbyteries in ar-
ranging the details of the campaign for raising the en-
dowment, and directing it among the churches.
Rev. J. F. Hardie and J. W. Thompson were nominated
by this committee and elected to direct the Endowment
Campaign.
The report of the Barium Springs Orphanage was pre-
sented by Rev. W. W. Akers, chairman of the Permanent
CommitteCj and adopted as follows :
ORPHANS' HOME AT BARIUM SPRINGS
There are 366 children in the Orphans' Home which is six more
than the rated capacity of the institution.
Of the 600 children that applied for admission who were in-
vestigated by the field worker only 52 could be admitted and this
made the number larger than the rated capacity. From this fact
can be seen the popularity of this fine institution and the great op-
portunity it has of blessing this state by caring for the needy children
and training them for Christian citizenship and usefulness in the
church, the home and society, if only better support would be given
and the capacity enlarged.
The kind care and attention given the children, the excellent
advantages provided and the Christian influence and teaching given
the children make it an ideal place for the needy orphans of our
state to be trained and saved for the church and state and made an
asset and not a liability. Only eternity will reveal all the good this
MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 49
institution is doing in our state and for the world in Christian
teachers and mission workers.
There the fifty children in the Orphans' Home from Mecklen-
burg Presbytery. While the majority of them are from Mecklenburg
County they are more evenly distributed at this time than formerly
in the counties of Anson, Moore, Richmond, Stanley and Union.
The receipts from Mecklenburg Presbytery have shown a
slump during the last two years. The year ending March 31, 1928 the
amount contributed was $26,658.89.
The year ending March 31, 1929 the amount given was $22,-
693.15. For this year, closing March 31, 1930 the receipts were only
$20,938.65, a falling ofif of $5,720.24 from the amount contributed
two years ago and this in face of increased expense by enlarged
numbers of children cared for.
During this year 5 Presbyteries made a gain in contributions,
four Presbyteries fell behind and Mecklenburg Presbytery's falling
behind was the most of any. This should call for serious thought on
our part and for a more earnest endeavor for the coming year that
Mecklenburg maintain her good name and do her part in this
needy and grand work.
The institution has run behind this year and last in the
amount needed for the support as estimated in the budget. The
amount estimated in the budget for the Orphans' Home to re-
ceive is $107,000.00. The amount actually received in the year just
closed was $95,096.00, which is nearly $12,000.00 short of the
amount needed.
In view of these facts your committee requests Presbytery to
urge all the churches (1) To a more liberal support of the Or-
phans' Home and an earnest endeavor to care for the needy ones
there under our charge ; (2) To make an earnest effort at Thanks-
giving and Christmas time to see that this institution, its needs
and cause, be well presented to the people for this liberal con-
tribution above the amount regularly contributed in the every
member canvass.
Respectfully submitted,
W. W. AKERS, Chairman.
The committee to nominate ten additional members of
the Presbytery's committee on the Ministers' Annuity
Fund made the following nominations which were elected :
COMMITTEE ON MINISTERS ANNUITY FUND
The committee on nomination of ten laymen to act on the
Ministers' Annuity Fund Committee beg leave to submit the
following :
In addition to the five old members which are as follows :
N. C. White, Chairman, Charlotte; J. M. Oldham, Charlotte; R. A.
Dunn, Charlotte ; T. M. Glasgow, Charlotte ; J. L. Choate, Hun-
50 MINUTES OF MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
tersville ; we would nominate : M. J. Harris, Albemarle ; Dr. J. E.
Hart, Wadesboro; J. E. McLauchlin, Hamlet; Rufus Grier, Char-
lotte (Steele Creek) ; H. J. Spencer, A. E. McCausland, John
Tate, W. B. Bradford, H. C. Alexander, W. L. Wallis, Charlotte.
Respectfully submitted,
E. A. DILLARD.
J. W. THOMPSON.
J. L. CHOATE.
WM. ANDERSON.
W. H. FRAZER, Chairman.
Rev. W. S. Hamiter was dismissed at this own request
to Bethel Presbytery and the chairman of the Committee
of Ministerial Relief was directed to recommend that he be
given the same appropriation from the Assembly's Fund of
Ministerial Relief.
Presbytery took recess until the call of Moderator.
Presbytery reconvened at 2:15 p. -m. The Stated Clerk
reported that the three presbyteries had all approved the
resolution sent to them on raising Queens College Endow-
ment and had appointed the following to direct the cam-
paign :
Mecklenburg Presbytery: Rev. J. F. Hardie and ruling
elder J. W. Thompson, of Charlotte.
Granville : Ruling elder Watts Hill, of Durham.
Kings Mountain : Rev. J. H. Henderlite, of Gastonia.
This was received as information.
At vote of thanks was extended to Queens College for
the entertainment at lunch.
The minutes of this meeting were approved.
Presbytery, adjourned to meet at Mulberry Church
October 28, 1930 at 11 a. m.
S. B. McLEAN, Moderator.
J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
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51
REPORT OF EVERY MEMBER CANVASS
BENEVOLENCES
Total
Askings
Albemarle 2300
Altan 60
Amity 540
Badin 360
Banks 550
Bethany 40
Bethel 500 .
Bethlehem 180
Beulah 60
Biscoe 110 _
Brainard 140
Caldwell Memorial 13800
Camden 180
Cameronian 130
Candor 170 _
Central Steele Creek __ 868
Charlotte, First 59000 _
Charlotte, Second 64000
Cook's Memorial 750
Cornelius 400
Ellerbe 100
Hamlet 1900
Hopewell 1100
Huntersville 2050
Indian Trail 190
Lee Park 70
Lilesville 30
Locust 80
Macedonia 270
Mallard Creek 1350
Marks Creek 170
Marshville 290
Marston 140
Matthews 310
McGee 850
McLean Memorial __ 40
Midland 30
Midway 30
Monroe 5800
Morgan Memorial 30
Morven 600
Mt. Carmel -'— 140
Mt. Gilead 420
Mulberry 200
Myers Park 11500
Newell
Nevin
Norman
North Charlotte
Norwood
700
40
70
150
670
No.
Sub.
140
45
55
21
18
30
79
28
33
16
40
64
395
99
90
200
Amt.
Sub
1300
45
680
365
148
30
CURRENT EXPENSES
Total No. Amt
Sub.
255
Budget
8500
265
2250
2073
600
250
45
55
59
18
30
180
50
32 132
439 8263
3 26
33 91
"45 "'721
._-_ 36670
851 26188
77 362
442
300
334
518
12500
275
449
2150
1300
'37500
79
28
30
36
492
50
50
25
45
400
51
420
478
15052
452
150
670
700
300
3080
1882
30640
1373
275
100
1604
3080
51
47
40
102
395
99
30
3
90
200
Sub.
6750
265
2500
2073
265
250
442
233
33A
314
10891
260
429
869
950
931 34738
""20
135
""83
698
"'850
7500
""40
135
"Iso
4295
""13
30
""31
75
2800
318
500
' 15
30
""42
500
""370
550
""17
70
128
600
41
""75
""510
""41
"lio
""15
""56
""310
""19
"'312
""7"6
6
"loo
10
"1500
125
""76
14
"1500
115
""17
""61
""216
______
""128
2500
674
198
3080
1882
32304
1373
275
65
1604
3080
52
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REPORT OF EVERY MEMBER CANVASS
BENEVOLENCES
Oakboro -.
Pageland _.
Palestine _.
Paw Creek
Peachland .
Pee Dee _—
Total
Askings
20 _
90
11
2100
50
150
Philadelphia 1800
Pineville 910
Plaza 700
Pleasant Hill 400
Polkton 100
Porter 30
Providence 500
Ramah 550
Rehoboth 50
Roberdell 130
Robinson 510
Rockingham 590
Rourk's Chapel 80
Salem 40
Seversville 880
Sharon 2200
Siler 220
Six Mile Creek 70
Stanfield 30
Star 20
Steele Creek 7500
Stephenson 100
St. Paul 1700
Sugaw Creek 36000
Tabernacle 40
Tenth Avenue 5900
Thomasboro 680
Troy 130
Turner 90
Unionville 70
Wadesboro 900
Wadeville 40
Waxhaw 250
Walkersville 620
West Avenue 2230
Westminster 6300
Williams Memorial — 1400
Wilmoore 570
No.
Sub.
22
Amt.
Sub.
95
CURRENT EXPENSES
Total No. Amt.
Budsret Sub. Sub.
440 12 288
250 22 187
172
1611
2782
189
2782
12
25
300
12
204
20
100
300
20
300
250
825
2600
250
2450
100
300
1200
130
1200
195
460
5104
195
5104
.75
455
500
75
400
23
25
317
23
317
40
50
35
13
57
524
"93
150
21
26
4
17
95
'251
86
75
500
400
35
n
27S
750
900
200
467
1500
25
7819
"1061
1876
245
175
5000
200
5050
2850
225 3000 10600
150
83
52
207
650
350
100
2200
50
"6070
1171
472
460
12000
.9400
2029
5,268
40
66
35
44
21
524
20
133
163
21
26
10
62
95
225
261
93
750
900
200
388
2>2>7
______
"""27
"'150
"""19
""157
"'"75
"1192
"3100
"""89
"3685
156
2006
2496
158
2496
4
20
522
8
7Z
30
130
5497
200
3408
2509
250 8000
700
350
100
1419
460
8000
7265
1936
4765
Total 217809
6069 127472 208544 7161 181465
Last Year's Re port__ 222479 4991 148838 199540 5779 181627
Note: In a number of churches the canvass was incomplete and
this report does not indicate the full amount the church will pledge.
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CHURCH PROPERTY
Value of Value of Debt on
Name of Church Church Manse Property
Albemarle $105,000 $ 5,000 $ 25,000
Altan 3,000
Amity 5,000 5,000
Badin 20,000
Banks 6,000 4,000
Bethany 2,000
Bethel 5,000 1,500
Bethlehem 1,000 2,500
Beulah 3,500 1,500
Biscoe 500
Bramard 2,500
Caldwell Memorial 150,000 12,000 21,000
Camden 1,000
Cameronian 2,500
Candor 18,000
Central Steele Creek 3,500
Charlotte, First
Charlotte, Second 450,000
Cooks Memorial 6,000
Cornelius 15,000
Ellerbe 12,000
Hamlet 70,000
Hopewell 20,000
Huntersville 30,000
Indian Trail 3,500
Lee Park 5,000
Lilesville 50
Locust 1,500
Macedonia 5,000
Mallard Creek 10,000 2,000 2,700
Marks Creek 1,500
Marshville
Marston 2,000
Matthews
McGee 8,000
McLean Memorial
Midland 800
Midway
Monroe 67,500 7,500
Morgan Memorial
Morven 15,000
Mt. Carmel 500
Mt. Gilead 32,000
Mulberry 25,000
Myers Park 255,000
Nevin 10,000
Newell 5,000
Norman 5,000
North Charlotte 14,455
Norwood 20,000
Oakboro 3,500
5,000
3,500
12,000
21,000
3,000
4,000
5,500
10,500
2,000
662
700
2,500
6,000
5,540
2,500
16,000
4,000
6,828
180,000
5,142
2,000
336
4,538
1,600
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CHURCH PROPERTY
Value of Value of Debt on
Name of Church Church Manse Property
Pageland 3,000 1,500
Palestine
Paw Creek 24,000 6,000 4,200
Peachland 2,000
Pee Dee 2,000
Philadelphia 10,000 1,500
Pineville 2,500 3,500
Plaza 20,000 4,200
Pleasant Hill . 2,000
Polkton 1,000
Porter 1,000
Providence 5,000 5,000
Ramah 5,500
Rehoboth 3,500
Roberdel 2,000
Robinson 6,500
Rockingham 18,000
Rourk's Chapel
Salem 2,000
Seversville 20,000
Siler 12,000
Six Mile Creek 7,000
Stanfiefd 800
Star -_ 150
Steele Creek 60,000
Stevenson 6,000
St. Paul 25,000
Sugaw Creek 25,000
Tabernacle 7,000
Tenth Avenue 75,000
Thomasboro 12,000
Troy _1 25,000
Turner - 5,000
Unionville 2,500
Wadesboro 30,000
Wadeville 2,500
Waxhaw 12,000
Walkersville 2,000
West Avenue 80,000
Westminster 61,000
W^illiams Memorial 14,000
Wilmoore 29,000
Total $2,047,755 $215,000 $388,246
2,000
2,000
4,000
1,500
33
7,500
1,200
50
15,000
5,850
5,000
3,600
5,000
1,500
15,000
12,000
5,300
2,500
5,000
205
6,000
2,500
300
19,500
10,000
10,000
3,000
1,500
8,000
9,762
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INDEX
Adjourned Meeting, Feb. 3, 1930 3
Adjourned Meeting, Feb. 17, 1930 5
Adjourned Meeting, May 5, 1930 46
Appropriations to Home Mission Churches 35
Arrangements at Presbytery 11
Bills and Overtures 29
Basis of Consolidation of Queens and Chicora 17
Barium Springs Orphanage Report 48
Calls and Supplies 39
Chicora and Queens Merger . 16, 17
Church Property Valuation 53, 54
Christian Education Report 19
Coit, R. T., Letter of Sympathy to 45
Commissioners to Assembly 14
Country Church Report 26
Directory Inside Cover
Evangelism Report 21
Popular Meeting in Fall at Presbytery 21
Every Member Canvass Report 51, 52
Fall Meeting, Place and Time 27
Federal Council, Presbytery's Overture
to Assembly 29
Foreign Missions Report 22
Special Committee 23
Frazer, A. H., Received 13
Frazer, A. H., to Supply at McGee 39
Garth, J. G., Treasurer's Report 24
Hamiter, W. S., Dismissed Bethel Presbytery 50
Home Missions Report 29
Popular Meeting 27
Workers' Conference 34
Joint Meeting, Mecklenburg, Kings Mountain and
Granville Presbyteries 6, 47
Leave of Absence Report 39
Lyerly, S. B., Death and Memorial 8
Manual Committee Continued 45
Marshville, Pastorate Dissolved, C. E. White 14
Mcllwaine, R. J., Re-elected 34
Men's Work, Report ?>1
Mulberry Invites Presbytery 27
Ministers' Annuity Fund Committee 49, Also Cover
Ministerial Relief Beneficiaries List 20
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Neill, W. B., Called to Lee Park Group 4
Installed at Lee Park, etc 6
Nicholson, W. A., Called to Pineville and Banks 4
Installed at Pineville and Banks 42
Organic Union with United Presbyterians Disapproved 28
Overture to Davidson College Trustees to Retain R. O. T. C 29
Federal Council 29
Permanent Committees Inside Cover
Presbyterial Sermon by M. B. Prince 14
P'resbyterial Tax Report 35
Price, W. E., Report as Treasurer of Home Missions 30
Price, W. E., Report as Benevolence Treasurer 24
Protests Recorded Against R. O. T. C. Overture 29
Queens College Report 15
Endowment Resolution of Feb. 17, 1930 6
Merger with Chicora Approved 17
Joint Resolution Adopted May 5, 1930 47, 48
Joint Committee Appointed 48
Religious Education Report
Sunday Schools 40
S. S. Statistics Insert
Young People's Work 41
R. O. T. C. Endorsed 29
Sabbath and Family Religion 42
Schools and Colleges Report 15
Sessional Records Committee Report Zl
Standing Committees 12
Statistical Report Insert
Stewardship Report 43
Stewardship Prayer Meeting 7
Supplies, H. C. Carmichael at Unionville 34
W. H. Frazer and Others 39
Synod's Minutes, Report on 39
Thanks Resolutions Adopted 45
Trustees Inside Cover
Trustees' Report 13
Vacancy and Supply Committee Report 36
Walker, A. A., Re-elected Supt. of Home Missions 34
Walker, J. R., on College at A. & E 22
White, C. E., Pastorate Dissolved at Marshville 14
White, C. E., Dismissed to Roanoke Presbytery 14
White, N. C, Made Chairman of Ministers' Annuity Com 4
Woman's Work Report 25
STATISTICAL REPORT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 1930
REPORT OF SABBATH SCHOOLS
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9. Sabbath and Family Religion— R. J. Mcllwain, J. W. McCain,
Wm Ross.
10. Evangelism — A. A. Walker, W. B. Mcllwaine, W. E. Price.
11. Men's Work— Lynn R. Walker, I. E. Wallace, L. P. Burney,
J. E. McLaughlin, C. P. Brown, H J. Spencer, P. S. Gilchrist,
J. P. Marsh, T. M. Glasgow, M. E. Trotter.
12. Women's Work— W. B. Mcllwaine, J. C. Grier, W. B. S. Chand-
ler," H. J. Spencer, R G. Spratt.
13. Auditing — J. F. Jamison, J. L. Williamson,
14. Stewardship — W. H. Johnston, Chairman and Secretary of Stew-
ardship; W. H. Frazer, E. G. Gammon, Frank Matthews, W. E.
Neil, R. A. Grier.
15. Sessional Records— T. H. Mitchell, W. G. Thomas, W. C. Cooper,
and five elders.
16. Country Church Work— Q. N. Huneycutt, F. S. Neal, S. J. Hood.
17. Ministers' Annuity Fund— N. C. White, Chairman; T. M. Glas-
gow, J. L. Choate, J. M. Oldham, R. A. Dunn, M. J. Harris, Dr.
J. E. Hart, J. E. McLaughlin, Rufus Grier, H. J. Spencer, A. E.
McCausland, John Tate, W B. Bradford, H C. Alexander, W. L
WalHs.
18. Examinations:
(1) Experimental Piety — The Moderator.
(2) Academic Studies — L. P. Burney.
(3) Languages — Latin Thesis and Greek Exegesis — C. W. Som-
merville, J. W. Grier.
(4) Natural and Exact Sciences — C H. Little, M. B. Prince.
(5) Mental and Moral Philosophy, Logic and Rhetoric — W. H.
Frazer, W. B. S. Chandler.
(6) Theology — A. S. Johnson, W. B. Mcllwaine, Jr., C. H. Rowan.
(7) Church History— J. M. Walker, J S. McFall.
(8) Church Government and Sacraments — M. E. Peabody, T. M.
Stribling.
TRUSTEES OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
Davidson— R. A. Dunn, H. N. Pharr— Terms expire 1932; C. R.
Nisbet, J. P. Matheson, W. H. Belk— Terms expire 1930.
Queens — McAlister Carson, Chairman — Term expires 1931 ; E. A.
McCausland, J. W. McClung, Hunter Marshall — Terms expire
1930; Mrs. C. C. Hook, Mrs. Cameron Morrison, J .L. Choate,
P. S. Gilchrist — Terms expire 1931 ; J. Arthur Henderson, E. E.
Jones, A. J. Crowell — Terms expire 1932.
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MINUTES
OF
Mecklenburg
Presbytery
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122nd STATED SESSION
Mulberry Church
October 28, 29, 1930
CALLED MEETINGS
At First Church, Charlotte, N. C.
June 24, 1930
July 17, 1930
September 15, 1930
November 17, 1930
ADJOURNED MEETING
December 1, 1930
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STATED SPRING SESSION
April 21, 1931
(No place selected)
OFFICERS OF PRESBYTERY
Mr. W. E. Price, Moderator.. Charlotte, N. C
Rev. J. G. Garth, Stated Clerk Charlotte, N. C
Rev. J. W. Stork, Permanent Clerk Mt. Gilead, N. C.
DIRECTORY
PERMANENT COMMITTEES
1. Foreign Missions — E. G. Gammon, C. G. Long, C. A. Harper,
W. L. Wallis, M. B. Speir.
2. Assembly's Home Missions— J. F Hardie, C. H. Little, A. S.
Anderson, George B. Chapman.
3. Christian Education and Ministerial Relief — J. W. Grier, W. B. S.
Chandler, J. W. McClung, J. M. Oldham.
4. Religious Education — General Chairman, L. P. Burney.
(1) Children's Division: W. M. Wilcox, W. E. Price.
(2) Young People's Division : E. A. Dillard, M. E. Peabody, J. D.
Woodside.
(3) Sunday School Extension: M. B. Prince, C. M. Hutchinson.
(4) Leadership Training: B. F. Yandell, G. M. Beaty, Dr. R. H.
Lafferty.
5. Bible Cause—W. A. Nicholson, J. W. Stork.
6. Synod's Home Missions— L E. Wallace, A. L. McDuffie, C H.
Caldwell, D. S. Monteith.
_7. Orphans* Home— W. W. Akers, R. W. Culbertson, William An-
derson, W. A. Jamison.
8. Schools and Colleges— C. R. Nisbet, L E. Wallace, B. F. Yandell,
Beatty Faires, G. M. Rose, Jr., A. S. Johnson.
9. Sabbath and Family Religion — R. J. Mcllwaine, J. W. McCain,
Wm. Ross.
10. Evangelism— A. A. Walker, W. B. Mcllwaine, W. E. Price.
11. Men's Work— J. E. McLaughUn, I. E.. Wallace, S. B. McLean,
C P. Brown, H. J. Spencer, P. S. Gilchrist, J. P. Marsh, T. M.
Glasgow, M. E. Trotter.
12. Women's Work— Lynn R. Walker, J. C. Grier, W. B. S. Chandler,
H. J. Spencer, R. G. Spratt.
13. Auditing — J. F, Jamison, J. L. Williamson.
14. Stewardship — W. H. Johnston, chairman and Secretary of Stew-
ardship ; W. H. Frazer, E. G. Gammon, Frank Matthews, W. E.
Neil, R. A. Grier.
15. Sessional Records— T. H; Mitchell, W. G. Thomas, W. C. Cooper,
and five elders.
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MINUTES
OF
Mecklenburg
Presbytery
122nd STATED SESSION
Mulberry Church
October 28, 29, 1930
CALLED MEETINGS
At First Church, Charlotte, N. C.
June 24, 1930
July 17, 1930
September 15, 1930
November 17, 1930
ADJOURNED MEETING
December 1, 1930
STATED SPRING SESSION
April 21, 1931
(No place selected)
Press of
Standard Printing Co.
Charlotte, N. C.
CALLED MEETING
Charlotte, N. C, June 24, 1930.
Mecklenburg Presbytery met in called session at the First
Church, Charlotte, N. C, at 11 a. m. The following were
present :
Ministers: S. B. McLean, A. S. Johnson, G. C. Hunting-
ton, A. F. Doty, A. A. Walker, R. W. Culbertson, A. R. Shaw,
J. G. Garth, B. F. Yandell, I. E. Wallace, L. P. Burney, C. W.
Sommerville, J. C. Grier, E. G. Gammon, T. H. Mitchell,
W. H. Johnston.
Elders: W. E. Price, Caldwell Memorial; J. W. Thomp-
son, Myers Park.
The meeting opened with prayer by Rev. R. W. Culbertson,
the Moderator. Rev. S. B. McLean presided, and the call was
announced as follows :
The constitutional requirements having been met, I hereby call
Mecklenburg Presbytery to meet at the First Presbyterian Church, Char-
lotte, N. C, Tuesday, June 24, 1930, at 11 a. m., to attend to the following
business :
1. To consider the request of Rev. A. F. Doty to dissolve the pas-
toral relation between himself and the North Charlotte Church.
2. To hear the response of the church to this request.
3. To grant Mr. Doty the privilege of laboring outside the bounds
of Presbytery until the fall meeting.
Charlotte, N. C, June 13, 1930.
S. B. McLEAN, Moderator.
J. G. GARTH, Stated Clerk.
The call was found in order. Rev. A. F. Doty presented his
request for the dissolution of his pastorate at North Charlotte.
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